Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.

You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew it.

My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

I know what love is, it is because of you.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard but must be felt with the heart.

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.