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

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

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

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

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.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

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

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

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

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

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

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

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

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

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

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

We are most alive when we're in love.

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

The giving of love is an education in itself.

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

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

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

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