Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

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.

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

The giving of love is an education in itself.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

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

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

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.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

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

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

The more one judges, the less one loves.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

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.

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

Our first and last love is self-love.

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

Love is a friendship set to music.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

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