Love and Happiness Phrases
Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.
Roy M. GoodmanJust because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.
Hugh ElliottLove is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Jean AnouilhNever marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.
William PennHappiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Storm JamesonBut love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.
William ShakespeareThe enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.
Jane AustenAll love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Ella Wheeler WilcoxIs love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
Jeff MelvoinLearning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.
Michael Masser and Linda CreedYou can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.
Real Live PreacherTo be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
MadonnaDepend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
The laws of ManuTo be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave FlaubertHappiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
Robertson DaviesI don’t think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.
Real Live PreacherThe discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Anthelme Brillat-SavarinHappiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Ayn RandSometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.
David AssaelHe who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson