“love means to see the one you love happy”

“Happiness means being close to the one you love, that's all. (Taking immediate possession is not necessary.)”

Orhan Pamuk book The Museum of Innocence

“Sometimes love means not being able to bear seeing the one you love the way they are, when they’re not what you hoped for them.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

“You don't love hatred and evil, of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves. That's what I mean by love.”

Richard Bach book Jonathan Livingston Seagull

“Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.”

Terry Goodkind book Wizard's First Rule

“Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and difficult as that.”

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But, then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love, to be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy, therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness — I hope you're getting this down.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

“Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.”

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …

“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”

George Sand (1804–1876) French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin

“How mysterious it is, to be in love. For you can be in love with one who knows nothing of you. Perhpas our greatest happinesses spring from such longings-being in love with one who is oblivious of you.”

Joyce Carol Oates Little Bird of Heaven (1st edition)