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.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is 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.

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

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

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

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

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person.

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.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Love is a friendship set to music.

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.

I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.

We are most alive when we're in love.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

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

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

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.