The more one judges, the less one loves.

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

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

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

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

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

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

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

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.

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

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

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

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.

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

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

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

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

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

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

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

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

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.