The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

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

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

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 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.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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

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

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

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.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew it.

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

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

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

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.