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.

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

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

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

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

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

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

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Love is a friendship set to music.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

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

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

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

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

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

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.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

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

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

You make me want to be a better man.

My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.

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