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

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

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

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

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

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

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

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

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

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Love is a friendship set to music.

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.

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.

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.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

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

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

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

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.

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

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

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

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.