100 Best Inspiring Love Quotes
100 Best Inspiring Love Quotes
- “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
— James Baldwin - “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
— Lucille Ball - “Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke - “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
— Morrie Schwartz - “If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
— Herman Hesse - “I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.”
— Roy Croft - “Love is a friendship set to music.”
— Joseph Campbell - “We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - “When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.”
— Blaise Pascal - “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton - “It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt - “Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.”
— Leo Buscaglia - “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
— Rumi - “Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.”
— Lao Tzu - “You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.”
— Julia Roberts - “At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”
— Plato - “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.”
— Alfred Tennyson - “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.”
— Helen Keller - “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
— Oscar Wilde - “The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.” — Henry Miller
- “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
— Oprah Winfrey - “You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
— Dr. Seuss - “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
— Khalil Gibran - “’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
— Alfred Lord Tennyson - “Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”
— Vincent Van Gogh - “The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”
— Albert Ellis - “If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.”
— Benjamin Franklin - “Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr. - “We are most alive when we’re in love.”
— John Updike - “The love we give away is the only love we keep.”
— Elbert Hubbard - “The giving of love is an education in itself.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt - “The more one judges, the less one loves.”
— Honore de Balzac - “A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
— Ingrid Bergman - “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
— Lao Tzu - “The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives? When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see in truth that you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
— Kahlil Gibran - “Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”
— Andre Breton - “Love is a better teacher than duty.”
— Albert Einstein - “True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”
— Erich Segal - “Every person has to love at least one bad partner in their lives to be truly thankful for the right one.”
— Unknown - “Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.”
— James Thurber - “The best proof of love is trust.”
— Joyce Brothers - “A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
— Honore de Balzac - “For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
— Carl Sagan - “Fortune and love favor the brave.”
— Ovid - “Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.”
— David Wilkerson - “Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.”
— Wayne Dyer - “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
— Anaïs Nin - “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
— Martin Luther King Jr. - “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.”
— A. A. Milne - “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”
— Charles Schulz - “You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won’t mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever…. connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.” ― C. JoyBell C.
- “We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don’t even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It’s time to put an end to this. It’s time for us to let ourselves be loved.” ― C. JoyBell C.
- “Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Simi? What was it you told me once about families? We have three kinds of family. Those we are born to, those who are born to us, and those we let into our hearts.” ― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Bad Moon Rising
- “A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.” ― Mother Teresa
- “Don’t marry a rich man. Marry a good man. He will spend his life trying to keep you happy. No rich man can buy that!” ― Staness Jonekos
- “She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city” ― Roman Payne, The Wanderess
- “The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.” ― John Marsden, Circle of Flight
- “It’s the beautiful moments like this that make up for the ugly love” ― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love
- it’s a blessed thing to love and feel loved in return.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
- “Then you must tell ’em dat love ain’t somethin’ lak uh grindstone dat’s de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everything it touch. Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.” ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
- “No matter how long you have been waiting, the man God has for you will surpass your expectations. You will meet him when god says so. Not a minute early, not a moment later.” ― Michelle McKinney Hammond
- “Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I’ll always miss her. But our love is like the wind. I can’t see it, but I can feel it.” ― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
- “If people are going to be allowed to say “we love you” and “I love you”, they’d better have the backbone to prove it. Love isn’t just a word.” ― C. JoyBell C.
- “Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.” ― Paulo Coelho
- “Forever has no meaning when you’re living in the moment.” ― Ellen Hopkins, Impulse
- “Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment.” ― Sinclair B. Ferguson
- “It’s disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.” ― Sue Grafton, J is for Judgment
- “Jesus clearly viewed children as precious – and that if he loved kids enough to say that adults should be more like them, we should spend more time loving them too.” ― Todd Burpo
- “Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.” ― Mark Twain
- “Many times, when I was having a hard time with one of my children, God would always remind me that He was having a harder time with me than I was with them” ― Charlie Jones
- “His attentive treatment of her had nothing to do with the presumption that she was weak, and everything to do with the conviction that she was valuable.” ― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon a Road Trip
- “How can something as fragile as a word build the whole world?” ― Franny Billingsley, Chime
- “we are not leaving anyone behind we have to stick togheter in order to stay safe.” ― Allan Frewin Jones, The Lost Queen
- “Love For All; Hatred for None” ― Mirza Nasir Ahmad
- “Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.” ― Thomas Bernhard, Frost
- “He stands there, facing the largest windows, touching the glass with the open palm of his hands, feeling everything, but seeing nothing.” ― Katherine Owen, When I See You
- “In many ways we were what Billy and Ruth Graham called ‘happily incompatible’.” ― Gayle Roper, Shadows on the Sand: A Seaside Mystery
- “True love is not a potion one person can swallow and another refuse to drink. It happens only when the souls of two join together to form one” ― P.C. Cast, Goddess of the Sea
- “She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me.” ― Mitch Albom
- “One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk.” ― Mary Renault, Fire from Heaven
- “The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
- “Love is not some kind of a game, it is special and should be taken care of because it’s the only thing that accepts you for who you are.” ― Nathania Gutierrez
- “Although love is communicated in a number of ways,our words often reflect the condition of our heart.” ― Jennifer Dion, Fireproof Your Marriage Couple’s Kit
- “One of the best holidays ever initiated especially in USA is THANKSGIVING. Giving thanks is the sacrifice that honors the LORD and HE blesses those who does.” ― James C. Uwandu, Almost the Whole Thing
- “Love comes in all shapes, sizes, sabores y formas, y a veces hasta con un saborcito extra que no te esperas.” ― Julieta Venegas Percevault
- “Your presence is my happiness, Your love is my life, and together with you we do have hope.” ― Manuel Lemos
- “The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart.” ― Vladimir Ilich Ulianov
- “Kesetaraan Gender bukan berarti kau boleh memperlakukan laki-laki setara derajatnya denganmu..Karena laki-laki tetaplah Imam-mu dan itu Mutlak.” ― puspita praptiningsih
- “Poetry is not the opinion stated. It is a song that appears instead of a bloody wound or a smiling mouth.” ― Kahlil Gibran
- “i have learnt to live to please myself first instead of other people, when I lived to please others, I lay late in bed with my eyes open in the dark wondering who I was, now I know myself” ― Stan The Man SA
- “Su contacto tenía una fuerza tierna y los dedos de ambos se entrelazaron con tanta naturalidad que tuvo la sensación que llevaban haciéndolo toda la vida” ― Dan Brown, Deception Point
- “A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created, so final judgement on a current book has to be deferred until it can be seen outside this present moment.” ― Madeleine L’Engle, A Circle of Quiet
- “Whenever there is a conflict between being right and being kind, if possible, choose being kind.” ― R.J. Palacio
- “I dwell on positive and beauty of life.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
- “if my love were an ocean , There would be no more land. If my love were a desert , You would see only sand. If my love were a star- Late at night, only light. And if my love could grow wings , I’d be soaring in flight.” ― Jay Asher
- “Someone who loves you will reveal beautiful things within yourself… things you had never noticed before… things nobody else cared to.” ― Steve Maraboli
- “People ask, “Are you important enough for me to love you?” But they’ve got it all wrong. When you love someone, you make them important. And the same thing happens to you. You don’t love them because they’re important; they become important because you love them.” ― C. JoyBell C.
- “There is no perfect love. There is only a right kind of love. This kind of love cares for your well-being, gives you the freedom to live your life, and stretches you to become your best self.” ― Janet Ong Zimmerman
