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

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

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.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

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

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

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

You make me want to be a better man.

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

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

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

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

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

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

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

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

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.

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.

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

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

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

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.

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