I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

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

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

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

We are most alive when we're in love.

Our first and last love is self-love.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

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

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

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.

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