Love Quotes
93 hand-picked lines on love
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
— Aristotle →
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”
— Victor Hugo →
“Where there is love there is life.”
— Mahatma Gandhi →
“The love we give away is the only love we keep.”
— Elbert Hubbard →
“Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.”
— H. Jackson Brown Jr. →
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
— David Viscott →
“Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
— Franklin P. Jones →
“A friend is what the heart needs all the time.”
— Henry Van Dyke →
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
— Audrey Hepburn →
“We are most alive when we are in love.”
— John Updike →
“The giving of love is an education in itself.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt →
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
— George Sand →
“The most important thing in the world is family and love.”
— John Wooden →
“Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.”
— David Wilkerson →
“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”
— Mother Teresa →
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
— Lao Tzu →
“Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.”
— Rumi →
“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more.”
— Nicholas Sparks →
“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry →
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
— Stephen Chbosky →
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
— William Shakespeare →
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.”
— Helen Keller →
“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”
— Maya Angelou →
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
— Robert A. Heinlein →
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
— Martin Luther King Jr. →
“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”
— Charles Dickens →
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.”
— Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:4 →
“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”
— Albert Ellis →
“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us.”
— Paulo Coelho →
“I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts. I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me.”
— Nicholas Sparks →
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls.”
— Maya Angelou →
“The best proof of love is trust.”
— Joyce Brothers →
“True love stories never have endings.”
— Richard Bach →
“To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that's everything.”
— T. Tolis →
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.”
— Jane Austen →
“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 →
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.”
— James Baldwin →
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without.”
— James Baldwin →
“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
— Dr. Seuss →
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”
— Mother Teresa →
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
— Martin Luther King Jr. →
“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.”
— François de La Rochefoucauld →
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
— Edgar Allan Poe →
“I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.”
— Nicholas Cage (City of Angels) →
“At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.”
— Plato →
“Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.”
— Osho →
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
— Theodore Hesburgh →
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
— Oscar Wilde →
“You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”
— Sam Keen →
“Love is the bridge between you and everything.”
— Rumi →
“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.”
— Max Muller →
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.”
— Lucille Ball →
“Love cures people — both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”
— Karl A. Menninger →
“In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”
— The Beatles →
“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”
— Peter Ustinov →
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.”
— Sophocles →
“Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.”
— Leo Buscaglia →
“There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.”
— Martin Luther →
“Love is a promise; love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.”
— John Lennon →
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
— Victor Hugo →
“Love is the voice under all silences.”
— e.e. cummings →
“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.”
— Willa Cather →
“The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”
— eden ahbez →
“Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.”
— Barbara De Angelis →
“The things that matter most in life are not things.”
— Art Buchwald →
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”
— Roy Croft →
“Love is not a feeling. It is a relationship.”
— Scott Peck →
“Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.”
— William Butler Yeats →
“Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.”
— Loretta Young →
“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more.”
— Nicholas Sparks →
“Love is friendship that has caught fire.”
— Ann Landers →
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.”
— Anaïs Nin →
“The best love is the one that makes you a better person.”
— Unknown →
“Love is not what you say. Love is what you do.”
— Unknown →
“I love you more than yesterday, less than tomorrow.”
— Edmond Rostand →
“Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law.”
— D.H. Lawrence →
“My heart is ever at your service.”
— William Shakespeare →
“You are my sun, my moon and all my stars.”
— e.e. cummings →
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems.”
— Rumi →
“Love is not consolation. It is light.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche →
“Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.”
— Thomas Aquinas →
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
— Albert Einstein →
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
— William Shakespeare →
“Love is a serious mental disease.”
— Plato →
“Love isn't blind; it just only sees what matters.”
— William Curry →
“Love is what you've been through with somebody.”
— James Thurber →
“In love, one and one are one.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre →
“Love is always bestowed as a gift — freely, willingly and without expectation.”
— Leo Buscaglia →
“A person who has never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
— Albert Einstein →
“Love is not just a feeling. It's a decision we make every day.”
— Unknown →
“Love yourself enough to set boundaries.”
— Anna Taylor →
“The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.”
— Dalai Lama →
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
— Buddha →