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.

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

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

My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

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

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

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

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

Our first and last love is self-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.

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

We are most alive when we're in love.

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

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

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.