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

We are most alive when we're in love.

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.

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

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

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

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

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

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.

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

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

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

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.

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

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

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

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

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

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

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

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

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 most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.