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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

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.

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

The more one judges, the less one loves.

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

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

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

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

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

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

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

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

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

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

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

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