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

-Peter Ustinov

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

-Lao Tzu

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

-Dalai Lama

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

-Virginia Satir

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

-Khalil Gibran

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

-Torquato Tasso

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

-Max Muller

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

-David Viscott

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

-Karl A. Menninger

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

-John Galsworthy

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

-Franklin P. Jones

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

-Victor Hugo

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

-Ferdinand Foch

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

-Oscar Wilde

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

-Orson Welles

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

-Maya Angelou

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

-William Shakespeare

In your life, my infinite dreams live.

-Pablo Neruda

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

-Leo Christopher

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

-Charles Schulz

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.

-Marilyn Monroe

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

-Maya Angelou

The giving of love is an education in itself.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

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

-Dr. Seuss

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

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

-Khalil Gibran