Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
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.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
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.
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
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.
Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
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.
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved we love to love.
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.