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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We are most alive when we're in love.

In your life, my infinite dreams live.

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

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.

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

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

You make me want to be a better man.

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

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

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.

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

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

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

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.