When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter. - Albert Camus

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. - Edith Wharton

The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. - Albert K Chalmers

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. - George Sand

That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest. - Henry David Thoreau

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis. - Margaret Bonnano

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination. - Mark Twain

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough. - Ann Landers

Whoso loves, believes the impossible. - Elizabeth Barret Browning

Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or repressed. But you have to keep searching for your body's deeper need, the need for genuine love. Every time you are able to go beyond the body's superficial desires for love, you are bringing your body home and moving toward integration and unity. - Henri Nouwen

Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives in the face of all of life's hazards, save one -- neglect. - James D Bryden.

Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. - Lisa Hoffman

We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us. - Margaret Guenther

Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible. - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Where there is love, there is pain. - Spanish Proverb

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. - Tom Robbins

Love all, trust a few. - William Shakespeare