100 Love Quotes to Inspire You to Keep Loving

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It is amazing to be with someone who makes you feel comfortable and happy, and most of all someone who accepts who you really are. But love and relationships don’t always come easy. Romantic relationships may come with laughter and happiness but they also come with tears and pain. Nevertheless, if you truly love a person, you have to keep loving. You have to fight for your love and maintain the joy in your relationship. You have to adjust and grow to keep someone, especially the one you love, in your life even if it means sacrificing your own comfort and happiness.

It takes a lot of effort to make a relationship work, but it sure is worth it in the end. Now here’s a list of 100 inspirational love quotes I want to share with you to inspire you to never stop loving.

1. “We love the things we love for what they are.” –Robert Frost

2. “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. Joy Bell C.

3. “A true relationship is two unperfect people refusing to give up on each other.” –Unknown

4. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn

5. “Your heart is free, have the courage to follow it.” – Braveheart

6. “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

7. “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

8. “You are my sun, my moon, and all of my stars.” – E.E. Cummings

9. “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” – Oscar Wilde

10. “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” – Mother Teresa

11. “Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. But if you love and must have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully.” – Kahlil Gibran

12. “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

13. “And in the middle of my chaos, there was you” –Unknown

14. “I know I am in love with you because my reality is finally better than my dreams.” – Dr. Seuss

15. “I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I’m open to anything that will happen to me.” – Nicole Kidman

16. “You don’t love someone because they’re perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.” – Jodi Picoult

17. “Every cell in my body was telling me that he was my happily ever after.” ― C.J. English, Affairytale

18. “Appreciate the moment of a first kiss, it may be the last time you own your heart.” – R.M. Drake

19. “My heart is, and always will be, yours.” – Sense and Sensibility

20. “Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself.” ― Oprah Winfrey 

21. “The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

22. “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

23. “I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.” – Angelita Lim

24. “I need you like a heart needs a beat.” – One Republic

25. “Love to me is someone telling me, ‘I want to be with you for the rest of my life, and if you needed me to I’d jump out of a plane for you.’” – Jennifer Lopez

26. “Where there is great love, there are always miracles.” – Willa Cather

27. “Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.” – I Corinthians 13: 7-8 ESV

28. “You are lucky enough to be best friends who love each other and that’s the strongest kind of love because at its core it has kindness, patience, and respect.” – The Big Bang Theory

29. “Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” – Alfred Tennyson

30. “Only time can heal your broken heart, just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.” – Miss Piggy

31. “Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the sceptic, an ardent zealot.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

32. “To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.” – J.K. Rowling

33. “I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.” – Leo Christopher

34. “Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that’s beautiful.” – Milan Kundera

35. “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.” – Joan Powers, Pooh’s Little Instruction Book

36. “I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand.” ― Talib Kweli

37. “True love is not something that comes every day, Follow your heart, it knows the right answer.” – Unknown

38. “The future for me is already a thing of the past – you were my first love and you will be my last.” ― Bob Dylan

39. “Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.” – Joan Crawford

40. “Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all.” ― Hemingway

41. “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

42. “Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke

43. “I love you. Very, Very Simply, Very Truly. You are the epitome of everything I have ever looked for in another human being.” – Chasing Amy

44. “Don’t forget I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.” – Notting Hill

45. “Come live in my heart and pay no rent.” – Samuel Lover

46. “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

47. “True love is knowing a person’s faults, and loving them even more for them.” –Unknown

48. “A simple ‘I love you’ means more than money.” – Frank Sinatra

49. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” ― Maya Angelou

50. “The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.” – Jennifer Aniston

51. “It’s the beautiful moments like this that make up for the ugly love” ― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

52. “She knew she loved him when ‘home’ went from being a place to being a person.” –E. Leventhal

53. “Love is just a word, but you bring it definition.” – Eminem

54. “You are my song. You are my song of love.” – Unknown

55. “I told you. You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.” – L.J. Smith

56. “She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me.” ― Mitch Albom

57. “No matter how many fights you may get into, if you truly love someone it should never matter in the end.” ― Unknown

58. “I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can’t really be felt, truly, by one.” – Sean Penn

59. “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever.” – Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

60. “… it’s a blessed thing to love and feel loved in return.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

61. “You are my today and all of my tomorrows.” – Leo Christopher

62. “Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.” – Lao Tzu

63. “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse

64. “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

65. “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” ― Unknown

66. “And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make.” – Paul McCartney

67. “Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.”– Wizard of Oz

68. “Forever has no meaning when you’re living in the moment.” ― Ellen Hopkins, Impulse

69. “Love is a promise; love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.”– John Lennon

70. “Our relationship is meant to be, something that was written in the stars and drawn into our destiny.” ― Unknown

71. “It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together… and I knew it.”– Tom Hanks, Sleepless In Seattle

72. “Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people; you can set your watch by them. And that’s love, even if it doesn’t seem very exciting.” – Sylvester Stallone

73. “Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone’s bad qualities because they somehow complete you.” – Sarah Dessen

74. “Life is so short, and love is so big. Too big for life! That’s why, when you love someone, they’d better know it. You’d better tell them. Love is meant for that, love is not meant to be hidden.” ― C. Joy Bell C.

75. “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” ― Martin Luther King, Jr.

76. “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

77. “We were together. I forgot the rest.” – Walt Whitman

78. “Life is messy. Love is messier.” – Catch and Release

79. “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.” ― Thomas Merton

80. “Loving you was never an option, it was a necessity.” ― Truth Devour

81. “To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.”– Madonna

82. “The heart wants what it wants. There’s no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that’s that.” – Woody Allen

83. “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” ― William Faulkner

84. “Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal” – Gayle Forman

85. “Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.” – Unknown

86. “Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.” – Marcus Aurelius

87. “To love someone is– to be with him in his rough times; be the panacea for his life, and lead him to those magnificent moments, which you always dreamed to cherish with him. Love has a mystical power to heal every scar on the soul.” ― Ritu Chowdhary, Scars on my Soul

88. “Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment.” ― Sinclair B. Ferguson

89. “The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.” ― Henry Miller

90. “I’m scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I’m with you.” – Dirty Dancing

91. “If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person.” – Haruki Murakami

92. “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” ― Tom Bodett

93. “When I look into your eyes, I know I have found the mirror of my soul.” ― Joey W. Hill

94. “Sometimes you just love a person, not because they love you, but because the love YOU have is perfect for them…only God, “Love” Himself knows…Never regret who you love, true love has purpose.” ― Tamika Gilmore

95. “We accept the love we think we deserve.” – Stephen Chbosky

96. “This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.” – Jalaluddin Rumi

97. “Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”― Martin Luther King Jr.

98. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” ―William Shakespeare

99. “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

100. “I have found the one whom my soul loves.” – Song of Solomon 3:4

As the famous Beatles song goes, “all you need is love”. I hope these quotes showed you how beautiful and powerful love is. What’s your favorite quote? Share this with your special someone or to that person whom you really like, but can’t show it through actions. Who knows? They might actually like and love you back.

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Mary Fatima Berongoy
Fatima is a photography enthusiast who loves to binge - watch movies and television series. She also loves listening to indie music and dreams to own a coffee shop one day.

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