Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.

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

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

The best proof of love is trust.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.