Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
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
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James Baldwin
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Ann Landers
The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
Martin Buber
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
Honore de Balzac
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Helen Keller
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
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
He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.
Thomas a Kempis
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
Erich Fromm
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
Rabindranath Tagore