“When we feed and support our own happiness, we are nourishing our ability to love. That’s why to love means to learn the art of nourishing our happiness.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience — or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.” – Jane Austen

“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.” – Willa Cather, My Antonia

“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives. – C.S. Lewis

“Communication is truth; communication is happiness…to conceal nothing; to pretend nothing; if we are ignorant to say so; if we love our friends to let them know it.” – Virginia Woolf

“There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.” – Lemony Snicket

“Happiness comes more from loving than being loved. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again – this is the brave and happy life.” – J.E. Buckrose

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. – Marcel Proust

“If you live for people’s acceptance, you’ll die from their rejection.” — Lecrae Moore

“When you do not seek or need approval, you are at your most powerful.” — Caroline Myss