You made me happy when I should have been miserable. You were the only person who could reach me, and maybe that scared me. You accepted me—broken and faulty.

—Monica Alexander in Buried Castles

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Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

—Douglas William Jerrold

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Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word love here not merely in a personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace — not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.

—James Baldwin

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I didn’t want to be in love with you. I didn’t want to believe in love at all. It’s never happened to me before. And to be perfectly frank, I’m still not entirely happy about the whole thing. I think it’s going to be exhausting.

—Shana Abe in Queen of Dragons

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Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.

—Swami Sivananda

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