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

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

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

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

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

We are most alive when we're in love.

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

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

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

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

Our first and last love is self-love.

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

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

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 many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.