“You owe it to yourself not to permit your emotions to place your happiness in the keeping of another person. Love is essential for happiness, but the person who loves so deeply that his or her happiness is placed entirely in the hands of another, resembles the little lamb who crept in the den of the “nice, gentle little wolf” and begged to be permitted to lied down and go to sleep, or the canary bird that persisted in playing with the cat’s whiskers.”

~ Napoleon Hill, the Law of Success, circa 1928.