To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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

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

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

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

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

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

We are most alive when we're in love.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

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.

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

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

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

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

Our first and last love is self-love.

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

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

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

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

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

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

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.

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.

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