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

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

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

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

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.

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

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.

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

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

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

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

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 has no age, no limit; and no death.

I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

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

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

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

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

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

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