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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.  In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

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

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.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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

Love is a friendship set to music.

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

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

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

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

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

In your life, my infinite dreams live.

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

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

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

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