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.

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

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

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.

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

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

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

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

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

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

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

The more one judges, the less one loves.

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

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

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

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

Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person.

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.

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

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

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

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.