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

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

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 does not dominate; it cultivates.

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

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

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

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

Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

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

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

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

Love is a friendship set to music.

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

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

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

I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.

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

We are most alive when we're in love.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

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

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

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