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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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.

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

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

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

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.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

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

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

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.