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

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

Our first and last love is self-love.

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

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

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

Love is a friendship set to music.

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 more one judges, the less one loves.

Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

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

When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew it.

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

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

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

The giving of love is an education in itself.

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

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

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

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

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

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

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

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

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.