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.

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.

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.

Love is a friendship set to music.

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

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.

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

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

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

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

I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.

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

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

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

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

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

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

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

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

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