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

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

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

Love is a friendship set to music.

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

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

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.

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

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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

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

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

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.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Our first and last love is self-love.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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