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

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.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

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

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

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

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

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.

Love is a friendship set to music.

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

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

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

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

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

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

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.  In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

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

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

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

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

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.

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