“There is more to loving someone than just making yourself happy. You have to want him to be happier than you are.”— Tarryn Fisher, amazon.com
“Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.”— Rita Mae Brown, amazon.com
“I’m happy when I feel your presence in my life…I can never write often or much, but I want you to trust me, and I want to press you against me.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“My sister told me a soul mate is not the person who makes you the happiest but the one who makes you feel the most, who conducts your heart to bang the loudest, who can drag you giggling with forgiveness from the cellar they locked you in. It has always been you.”— Sierra Demulder, sierrademulder.tumblr.com
“I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.”— Alessandro Baricco, amazon.com
“All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is th…”— Blaise Pascal, amazon.com
“But I have seen the best of you and the worst of you, and I choose both. I want to share every single one of your sunshines and save them for later. I will tuck them into my pockets so I can give them back to you when the rain falls hard. Friend, I want to be the mirror that reminds you to love your…”— Sarah Kay, ohsarahkay.tumblr.com
“You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.”— Julia Roberts, goodreads.com
“I’m blown away by how happy you make me. Thank you for being there for me when I’m stupid enough to think I’d rather be alone.”— Adam Silvera, amazon.com
“I wish to live a life that causes my soul to dance inside my body.”— Dele Olanubi, bealightinthedark.com
“Stop looking for happiness in the same place you lost it. Discover new places. Open your mind.”— Francesca Ricci, wnq-writers.com
“I want somebody with a sharp intellect and a heart from hell. somebody with eyes like starfire and a mouth with a kiss like a bottomless well. but mostly I just want someone who will love me. when I do not know how to love myself.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“And I learned ‘You deserve better’ was sometimes no more than a synonym for ‘I don’t want to hurt you, and I want you to be happy, but I don’t love you anymore.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, amazon.com