Affection is to the self-esteem what the Sun is to the flower (Dean Fraser)

Poking your nose into other people’s business [is]…giving them clear messages that you don’t think they are capable of solving their own problems. (Louise Samways)

One of the most important things you can do in life is to genuinely make someone feel good about themselves.

Each person that I meet is my chance to practise love, by finding ways to make that person feel good about themselves. (Dean Fraser)

He who cannot hold his tongue will never hold his friends.

When we love something it is of value to us, and when something is of value to us we spend time with it, time enjoying it and time taking care of it. (M. Scott Peck - The Road Less Traveled)

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

I believe that we are here to contribute love to the planet - each of us in our own way. (Bernie Siegel, MD)

I don't want to live - I want to love first, and live incidentally. (Zelda Fitzgerald)

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' (Erich Fromm)

Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy. (Leo Buscaglia)

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. (David Grayson)

Love cures people - both the ones who give it, and the ones who receive it. (Dr. Karl Menninger)

If you would be loved, love and be lovable. (Benjamin Franklin)

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love. (Henry Miller)

Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered, it keeps no records of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perserveres.
(1 Corinthians 13:4-7)

Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man… (Joseph Joubert)

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. (Victor Hugo)

The love you give away is the only love you keep. (Elbert Hubbard)

Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course. (Kahlil Gibran)

Charm is that quality in another that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. (Henri Frederic Amiel)

Acknowledging people gives them the message that they are accepted, that they are loved

When we see more in another, they will see more in themselves (Dean Fraser)

We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

When we fully love ourself, then will we love without conditions

We feel loved when people are pleased to see us

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. (H. Jackson Brown)

Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, the romance and you find out you still care for that person. (Unknown)

When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all. (Dr. Joyce Brothers)

You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. (Unknown)

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. (Gladstone)

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. (David Byrne)

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. (Marianne Williamson)