“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

“...the word 'love' designates a subjective condition in which the welfare and happiness of another person are essential to one's own happiness.”

“Love" is a that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own...Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy”

“Julia Kline, you’ve spent your whole life running and all you’ve done is run farther away from the love that’s been waiting for you all along. The first time you smiled at me with your two missing teeth you had my undivided attention. When you laugh, I want to laugh with you. When you cry, I want to be the one to hold you. When you said you loved me, you highjacked my heart forever. They say that love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Your happiness is what I will spend the rest of my life striving to give you. I love you so much. Will you do the honor of marrying me?”

“The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness”

“True love means that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”