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

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

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

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

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

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

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

You make me want to be a better man.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

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

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.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

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

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

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

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

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

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 yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

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

We are most alive when we're in love.

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

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

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.

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