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

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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

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.

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

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

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

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

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

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

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

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

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

The giving of love is an education in itself.

True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.

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

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.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

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 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.

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

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.