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

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

Love is trembling happiness. -Kahlil Gibran

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

Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to Heaven above that I love the man I marry. -Rose Stokes

A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life. -Joseph Addison

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined together to strengthen each other in all labour, to minister to each other in all sorrow, to share with each other in all gladness, to be one with each other in the silent unspoken memories? -George Eliot

If love is a dream, then marriage is the alarm clock. -John Hagee

Love is like a game of chess:
One false move and you're mated. -Unknown