November 15th, 2017 | Updated on February 17th, 2022
Thoughts not only about happy, romantic love but of love in other forms and stages too. These are 35 of the most inspiring, touching and helpful quotes on love.
1. Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. — Lucille Ball
2. 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
3. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller
4. Love the giver more than the gift. – Brigham Young
5. There is no remedy for love but to love more. – Henry David Thoreau
6. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. – Leo Tolstoy
7. We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it. – John Lennon
8. Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous, love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offense, and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. Love does not come to an end. – Bible
9. You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. – Henry Drummond
10. Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. – Samuel Johnson
11. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. – Lao Tzu
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12. In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love, you want the other person. – Margaret Smith
13. Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. – Mother Teresa
14. All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt. — Charles Schulz
15. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. — Martin Luther King Jr.
16. Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.— Wayne Dyer
17. Fortune and love favor the brave. — Ovid
18. A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. — Honore de Balzac
19. True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. — Erich Segal
20. Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself. — Andre Breton
21. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu
22. The more one judges, the less one loves. — Honore de Balzac
23. The love we give away is the only love we keep. — Elbert Hubbard
24. Love does not dominate; it cultivates. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
25. The art of love is largely the art of persistence. — Albert Ellis
26. Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
27. You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. — Dr. Seuss
28. The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love. — Henry Miller
29. The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller
30. At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. — Plato
31. Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses. — Lao Tzu
32. 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
33. Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever. — Leo Buscaglia
34. The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
35. Love is a friendship set to music. — Joseph Campbell
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