Love & Happiness

How do you spell love?... when you reach the point where the happiness, security, and development of another person is as much of a driving force to you as your own happiness, security, and development, then you have a mature love. True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.
--Josh McDowell

Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.
--Ralph Connor

We love to the degree we're happy. While we are unhappy and attending to our fears, we are not loving. The self is always crying out for acceptance. When we deny it that acceptance, things get hairy. Our attention gets sucked into a void inside ourselves, leaving nothing left to give to another.
--Jennifer Hautman

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

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
--Van Lubreitz

Love is trembling happiness.
--Kahlil Gibran

Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair.
--Kierkegaard

True happiness and a fullness of joy can be found only in the tender and intimate relationships of the family. However earnestly we may seek success and happiness outside the home through work, leisure activities, or large bank accounts, we will never be fully satisfied emotionally until we develop deep and loving relationships.
--James J. Jones Ph.D.

Happiness comes when your work and words
are of benefit to yourself and others.
--Author Unknown

I hope life treats you kind;
And I hope you have all you've dreamed of
And I wish to you, joy and happiness;
But above all this, I wish you love.
--Dolly Parton (I Will Always Love You)

What counts in making a happy relationship is not so much
how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
--Daniel Goleman

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness
that you are able to give.
--Eleanor Roosevelt

We've got to convince our egos and our minds that if we want
to live happy lives, love is more important than anything else!
--Ken Keyes

Of all forms of caution, caution in love
is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
--Bertrand Russell

There are three kinds of love, - unselfish, mutual, and selfish. The unselfish love is of the highest kind. The lover only minds the welfare of the beloved and does not care for his own sufferings. In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved but has an eye towards his own happiness also. It is middling. The selfish love is the lowest. It only looks towards its own happiness, no matter whether the beloved suffers weal or woe.
--Sri Ramakrishna