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

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.

I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.

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

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

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.

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.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

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

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

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

In your life, my infinite dreams live.

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.

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

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

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

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

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

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 a friendship set to music.

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

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

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

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

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