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

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

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

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

You make me want to be a better man.

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

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

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.

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

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard but must be felt with the heart.

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

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

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

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.

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

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