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

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

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

I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.

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

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.

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

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

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

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

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

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

The more one judges, the less one loves.

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.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

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.

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

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

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

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

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

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

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