We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

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

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

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.

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

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

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

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

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.

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

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

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

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

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

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

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.