'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

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.

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

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

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

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.

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

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

The best proof of love is trust.

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.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

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

Where there is love there is life.

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

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

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.

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

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

When love is not madness, it is not love.

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

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

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

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.

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

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

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.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

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

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

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

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Only do what your heart tells you.

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.

If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

All mankind love a lover.

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

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.