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

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.

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

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

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

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

In your life, my infinite dreams live.

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

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.

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

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

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

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

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

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

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