Introduction
Love is one of the most powerful emotions we can experience. It can bring us great joy, but it can also cause us pain. However, love is always worth the risk. The following quotes capture the beauty, passion, and complexity of love.
1. One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. ~Sophocles
2.The loneliest place in the world is the human heart when love is absent. ~Jeremiah Say
3. Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully. ~Phillips Brooks
4. Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate
good as far as it can be obtained. ~C. S. Lewis
5. First and foremost, self-love, and then give love away. ~Katy Perry
6. Jealousy, properly considered, is an essential element of true love: it is & an
unceasing longing for the loved one’s welfare. ~J. A. Motyer
7. Love is service rather than sentiment. ~John R. W. Stott
8. Love is the outgoing of the entire nature in self-sacrificing service. ~W. H. Griffith Thomas
9. If you work at love, you will find love at work. ~Peter Jackson
10. You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. ~Amy Carmichael
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11. Nothing will be intentionally lacking where there is love. ~ J. C. Ryle
12. He who is not filled with love is necessarily small, withered, shrivelled in his outlook
on life and things. ~Benjamin B. Warfield
13. 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. ~Bruce Lee
14. There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. ~Jane Austen
15. You always gain by giving love. ~Reese Witherspoon
16. The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. ~Hubert H. Humphrey
17. Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. ~James Baldwin
18. The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart. ~Helen Keller
19. Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. ~Helen Keller
20. To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. ~Madonna
21. I love you” begins by I, but it ends up by you. ~Charles de Leusse
22. Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~Robert A. Heinlein
23. You don't marry someone you can live with — you marry someone you cannot live
without. ~Anon.
24. Walk with me through life…and I’ll have everything I’ll need for the journey. ~Anon.
25. You have replaced my nightmares with dreams, my worries with happiness, and my
fears with love. ~Anon.
26. You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because the reality is finally better
than your dreams. ~Dr. Seuss
27. To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you are the world. ~Dr. Seuss
28. Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot
survive.~Dalai Lama
28. This better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.~Alfred, Lord Tennyson
29. The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. ~Audrey Hepburn
30. Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that’s beautiful. ~Milan Kundera
31. The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves,
or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. ~Victor Hugo
32. I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect. ~Taylor Swift
33. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. ~Aristotle
34. Love does not dominate; it cultivates. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
35. We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
36. To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to
be found in the dark folds of life. in 500 Days of Summer ~Victor Hugo
37. Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive
at its destination full of hope. ~Maya Angelou
38. 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. ~Winnie the Pooh
39.Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness
there is in our lives. ~C.S. Lewis
40. To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life. ~Elizabeth Gilbert
41. 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
42.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
43.I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt,
only more love. ~Mother Teresa
44. The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ~Mother Teresa
45. When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to
become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too. ~Paulo Coelho
46. Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to
imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and
confused. ~Paulo Coelho
47. It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide
48. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
49. Love is the flower; you've got to let it grow. ~John Lennon
50. Love is what you’ve been through with somebody. ~James Thurber
51. There's nothing that I wouldn't do to make you feel my love. ~Bob Dylan
52. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply
gives you courage. ~Lao Tzu
53. Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart
and the senses. ~Lao Tzu
54. To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. ~Bertrand Russell
55. Maybe I don’t know that much but I know this much is true, I was blessed because I
was loved by you. ~Celine Dion
56. A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. ~Elbert Hubbard
57. Where there is love, there is life. ~Mahatma Gandhi
58. When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have
always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem
invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always. ~Mahatma Gandhi
59. The giving of love is an education in itself. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
60. 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
61. I love how she makes me feel like anything is possible, or like life is worth it. ~Tom Hansen
62. Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale. ~Melissa Brown
63. The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. ~Morrie Schwartz
64. I love being married. It's so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the
rest of your life. ~Rita Rudner
65. When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the
rest of your life to start as soon as possible. ~Anon.
66. Every person has to love at least one bad partner in their lives to be truly thankful for
the right one. ~Anon.
67. I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and
at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell
don't deserve me at my best. ~Marilyn Monroe
68. 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
69. 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
70. You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that
they're not. ~Jodi Picoult
71. When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them
to be. ~Leo Tolstoy
72. We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love. ~Sigmund Freud
73. Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because
they somehow complete you. ~Sarah Dessen
74. Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be. ~Khalil Gibran
75. Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do. ~David Wilkerson
76. The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give
enough of is love. ~Henry Miller
77. Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever. ~Leo Buscaglia
78. Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who
wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. ~Plato
79. Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do. ~David Wilkerson
80. 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
81. To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s
everything. ~T. Tolis
82. I have decided to stick to love; hate is too great a burden to bear. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
83. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out
hate: only love can do that. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
84. When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before. ~Blaise Pascal
85. The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
86. Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness. ~Euripides
87. I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you. ~Roy Croft
88. Do I love you? My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of
beaches. ~William Goldman
89. Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself
to get anything done in this world. ~Lucille Ball
90. When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and
comfortable. ~Jess C. Scott
91. Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.
Nicholas Sparks
92. You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but
because they sing a song only you can hear. ~Oscar Wilde
93. Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are
dead. ~Oscar Wilde
94. Never love anybody who treats you like you're ordinary. ~Oscar Wilde
95. A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to
matrimony in a moment. ~Jane Austen
96. The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has
for his old wife. ~Will Durant
97. You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company. ~Diane Von Furstenberg
98. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid
painted blind. ~William Shakespeare
100. A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love
one another. ~Jesus Christ
Conclusion
I hope you enjoyed these inspirational quotes about love. Love is a gift that we should all cherish. It is the force that makes life worth living.
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