“Allowing someone else to make us happy will make them happy too.”

“What people need to accept is that it is there responsibility to communicate what they need and what they feel, and to realize that they cannot expect someone else magically to make them happy. People want to be made happy, instead of making themselves happy”

“I see someone who is afraid of giving up the only dream that will make them happy because he's too busy doing what everyone else wants him to do.”

“Yes. You couldn’t make anyone else happy. He tried to tell himself that, and drink through the buzzing little voice saying that, for a few short weeks, he actually had made someone else happy. And Owen had made him happy too.”

“Louise Colet was a proto-feminist who committed the sin of wanting to make someone else happy.”

“You can't wait around for someone else to make you happy. Make joy in your own heart and go from there.”