Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

In your life, my infinite dreams live.

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

Our first and last love is self-love.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

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.

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

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

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