Loving someone can be the greatest feeling we could ever have. It can make us do things we never thought we could do. It also motivates us to keep going no matter how hard the circumstances may be.
To love and be loved by someone is the greatest moment that could happen to us. It is indeed a wonderful thing. True love could change anyone into a better person. It could make any relationship grow. It could make your life more beautiful and meaningful. And besides, God is love.
Now, to inspire and motivate you to love more even without expecting any return, here are 100 best inspirational quotes and sayings about love coming from different people, places, and time.
1. “Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” — 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
2. “Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.” – Lord Byron
3. “A simple ‘I love you’ means more than money.” – Frank Sinatra, “Tell Her You Love Her”
4. “When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.” – Albert Einstein
5. “Love should be an inspiration, not an obligation.” – Zsa Zsa Gabor
6. “We never get enough of falling in love and believing in love.” – Shemar Moore
7. “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” – Charles Dickens
8. “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott
9. “We loved with a love that was more than love.” – Edgar Allen Poe, “Annabel Lee”
10. “The flowers have already appeared in the land; The time has arrived for pruning the vines, And the voice of the turtledove has been heard in our land. The fig tree has ripened its figs, And the vines in blossom have given forth their fragrance. Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, And come along!'” – Song of Solomon 2:12
11. “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 Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
12. “I fell in love with you because there was a mischief in your eyes.” – Michka Assayas
13. “Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul that you never knew was missing.” – Torquato Tasso
14. “Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever – only, nothing is eternal.” – Audre Lorde
15. “Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.” – Loretta Young
16. “Give in to love, or live in fear.” – Rent
17. “Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.” – Romans 12:10
18. “Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get–only with what you are expecting to give—which is everything.” – Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life
19. “Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.” – E.E. Cummings
20. “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Herman Hesse
21. “If you find me not within you, you will never find me. For I have been with you, from the beginning of me.” – Rumi
22. “Some love stories aren’t epic novels. Some are stories, but that doesn’t make them any less filled with love.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City
23. “But Ruth said, ‘Do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God.’” – Ruth 1:16
24. “Don’t fall in love; rise with it.” – Amit Abraham
25. “How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.” – David Foster Wallace
26. “You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you’re in the saddest, confused time of your life. You don’t fall in love with people because they’re fun. It just happens.” – Kirsten Dunst
27. “We can do no great things; only small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa
28. “All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.” – Meghan O’Rourke
29. “Love should is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each includes the other, each is enriched by the other.” – Felix Adler
30. “To fall in love is very easy, staying in love is a challenge, letting go is the hardest part, and moving on is a damn suicide.” – Nishan Panwar
31. “Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” – Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
32. “Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
33. “Don’t just pretend to love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Hold tightly to what is good. Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other.” – Romans 12:9-15, New Living Translation
34. “Then he kissed her so deeply and so completely that she felt like she was falling, floating, spiralling down, down, down, like Alice in Wonderland.” – Liane Moriarty
35. “I love you. I knew it the minute I met you.” – Pat Solitano, Silver Linings Playbook
36. “She wasn’t exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way.” – Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven
37. “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow–this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” – Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
38. “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
39. “There’s only one thing that cuts through all our realities and that’s love—the bridge between all our differences.” – The L Word
40. “Love is not something you feel, it is something you do.” – David Wilkerson
41. “If I had a flower for every time thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.” – Alfred Tennyson
42. “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” – John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
43 “You reminded me what it feels like to love. You made me fall in love and, heck, I don’t want to lose that. I don’t want to lose you.” – Nyrae Dawn
44. “Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.” – Roger de Rabutin
45. “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.” – 1 Peter 4:8
46. “Falling in love is like leaping from a cliff. Your brain screams that it’s not a good idea and that hurt and pain will inevitably come to you. But your heart believes you can soar, glide and fly.” – Marie Coulson
47. “If the music is the food of love, play on.” – William Shakespeare
48. “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
49. “You know you’re in love the moment you can touch the stars without reaching.” – Melisa M. Hamling
50. “Love those who love you.” – Voltaire
51. “Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” – Washington Irving
52. “The art of love is largely the art of persistence.” – Albert Ellis
53. “Because through love, we feel the intensity of our connection to everything and everyone. And at the core, we are all the same. We’re all one.” – Loving Annabelle
54. “Love is a friendship set to music.” – Joseph Campbell
55. “We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
56. “No one ever fell in love without being a little bit brave.” – Mario Tomasello
57. “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
58. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” ― Maya Angelou
59. “There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been perfected in love.” – 1 John 4:18
60. “Love is a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
61. “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.” – Harry Burns, When Harry Met Sally
62. “You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.” – Sam Keen
63. “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.” ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
64. “True love doesn’t happen right away; it’s an ever-growing process. It develops after you’ve gone through many ups and downs, when you’ve suffered together, cried together, laughed together.” – Ricardo Montalban
65. “With the whole world crumbling, we pick this time to fall in love.” –Ilsa Lund, Casa Blanca
66. “We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.” – George W. Melville
67. “We love because He first loved us.” – 1 John 4:19
68. “The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.” – Victor Hugo
69. “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
70. “Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” – Pablo Picasso
71. “In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.” – Theodor Reik
72. “You know you’re inlove when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Suess
73. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
74. “Love is the beauty of the soul.” ― Saint Augustine
75. “When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” ― Arrigo Boito
76. “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
77. “Love is, in fact, an intensification of life, a completeness, a fullness, a wholeness of life.” – Thomas Merton
78. “The best thing to hold onto life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
79. “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” – Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
80. “I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.” – Taylor Swift
81. “You call it madness but I call it love.” – Don Byas
82. “The giving of love is an education in itself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
83. “The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.” – Blaise Pascal
84. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” ―Lucille Ball
85. “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
86. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
87. “And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” – Paul McCartney
88. “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
89. “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Kindly Ones
90. “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
91. “Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
92. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” – William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
93. “If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.” – Barbara De Angelis
94. “I am who I am because of you.” – Noah, The Notebook
95. “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness – and call it love—true love.” – Robert Fulghum, True Love
96. “Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.” – John Lennon
97. “Love is an endless act of forgiveness. Forgiveness is me giving up the right to hurt you for hurting me.”― Beyonce
98. “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”– Sophocles
99. “This love is silent.” – T.S. Elliot
100. “Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.” – Ephesians 4:2
I hope these quotes inspired your perspective on love. What’s your favorite saying or quote? Love requires a lot of patience, sacrifices, and understanding. These things may be tough to give but it is all worth it in the end for the right person.
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