Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.

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

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

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

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 is so short, forgetting is so long.

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

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

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

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

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

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

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

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.

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

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

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

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 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.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.