Robert Fulghum Quotes

A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.

Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

When you're married, the person you would most like to love you is your spouse. And if you feel loved by your spouse, the world looks bright. But if the love tank is empty, and you don't feel loved by your spouse, the world begins to look dark.

Of course I'd like someone in my life. And of course, when I go home in the evening, I wish there was someone waiting for me. But very honestly, I don't have time to be lonely. My work fills up most of my day, and when I get home, I just want to sleep.

I don't require sex for happiness - I need companionship. I need a partner I can depend on, that I can love and grow with.

Sometimes we're so busy trying to get things and at the end of the day, all we need is love.

I think if you have someone to love and someone who loves you, that's the greatest beauty secret.

Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.

A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board

Have I told you lately that I love you, have I told you lately there's no one above you. Fill my heart with gladness, take away all my sadness, ease my troubles, that's what you do.

Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.

You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.

I don't know how I would have gotten through this life without someone to really love me and I love them, him, and them [family]. It's forgiving. Love is very forgiving to one another and your friends and it's a powerful, powerful emotion and it's my favorite emotion in life. Now, write that down and read it and remember it.

Can you remember the last time you were in love? Your heart went ahhh. It was such a wonderful feeling. It’s the same thing with loving yourself except that you will never leave. Once you have your love for yourself, it’s with you for the rest of your life, so you want to make it the best relationship you can have.

Love is about needing someone, about feeling as if the day isn't quite right if they're not there. Its about knowing that, no matter how bad a day you've had, the moment you see them again or hear their voice, the world is back in its place.

Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.

Love is a healer and I love you.

It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.

Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.

And then there are my friends, and they have their own lives. While they like to talk everything through, to analyze and hypothesize, what I really need, what I'm really looking for, is not something I can articulate. It's nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. And I know it's around me somewhere, but I just can't feel it.

The most powerful force in a woman's life is the need to be appreciated, loved and cherished for what she is.

Nothing really matters; love is all we need.

Well one thing's for sure.. all you really need is love.