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

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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.

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

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.

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.

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.

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

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

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

You make me want to be a better man.

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

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

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

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

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

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

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

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

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

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

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

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