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

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

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.

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

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

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

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

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

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

Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.

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

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

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

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.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.