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 More about this quote Tags: love exhaustion happiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: love life fear knowledge happiness growth daring Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. —Douglas William Jerrold More about this quote Tags: self happiness heart growth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. —H. Jackson Brown, Jr. More about this quote Tags: love relationship happiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: fear acceptance happiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: politics opinion freedom happiness tyranny Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You deserve someone who loves you with every single beat of his heart, someone who thinks about you constantly, someone who spends every minute of every day just wondering what you’re doing, where you are, who you’re with, and if you’re OK. You need someone who can help you reach your dreams and protect you from your fears. You need someone who will treat you with respect, love every part of you, especially your flaws. You should be with someone who could make you happy, really happy, dancing on air happy. —Cecelia Ahern in Love, Rosie More about this quote Tags: love relationships happiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: wisdom freedom happiness ego seriousness fulfillment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. —Agnes Repplier More about this quote Tags: happiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Joys divided are increased. —Josiah Gilbert Holland More about this quote Tags: happiness joy sharing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Happiness is always a byproduct. 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 Davies More about this quote Tags: life happiness worry unhappiness temperament Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood. —Agatha Christie in An Autobiography More about this quote Tags: happiness childhood luck Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return—that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. For a moment I felt that I had discovered a great truth. —Dodie Smith in I Capture the Castle More about this quote Tags: truth love happiness luxury Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People with a grudge against the world are always dangerous. They seem to think life owes them something. I’ve known many who have suffered worse and been cut off from life much more…and they’ve managed to lead happy contented lives. It’s what’s in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy. —Agatha Christie in A Murder Is Announced More about this quote Tags: life danger happiness world suffering anger grudge contentment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. —J. D. Salinger More about this quote Tags: fear happiness doubt suspicion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email