In love, there are mountains and valleys we need to get through before we find the right one. I believe that the keys to having a healthy relationship are patience, communication, loyalty, fun, and love. Being deeply loved by someone gives us strength and courage to make impossible things possible.
It might be difficult to maintain a high level of inspiration especially when the journey gets tough. However, it is important to develop the habit of being patient. So, today I would like to share inspirational quotes and sayings about love coming from different people, cultures, and times.
1. “You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.” —Gautama Buddha
2. “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
3. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” —Maya Angelou
4. “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”—Dalai Lama
5. “Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible—it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.” —Barbara de Angelis
6. “The best proof of love is trust.” —Joyce Brothers
7. “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”— Morrie Schwartz
8. “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
9. “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
10. “Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.”— Lao Tzu
11. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.”— Alfred Tennyson
12. “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”— Oscar Wilde
13. “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
14. “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
15. “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.”— The Notebook
16. “Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.” — James Thurber
17. 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
18. “True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”— Erich Segal
19. “The giving of love is an education in itself.”— Eleanor Roosevelt
20. Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”— Khalil Gibran
21. “You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss
22. “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller
23. “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”— Gilbert K. Chesterton
24. “I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.”— Roy Croft
25. “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
26. “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
27. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
28. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
29. “You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.” ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
30. “The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.” ― Marilyn Monroe
31. “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.” ― Jess C. Scott, The Intern
32. “It’s better to have loved and lost. Than never to have loved at all.” ― Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam
33. “Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone’s bad qualities because they somehow complete you.” ― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
34. “Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.” – Malagasy Proverb
35. “One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
36. “Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.” ― Oscar Wilde
37. “Do I love you because you’re beautiful, Or are you beautiful because I love you?” ― Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella
38. “This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
39. “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
40. “A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other…Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever” ― Dave Matthews Band
41. “The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!” ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
42. “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
43. “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.” – 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (NIV)
44. “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
45. “If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her—then don’t let her go.” ― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle
46. “If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.” ― Kahlil Gibran
47. “A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.” ― Max Lucado
48. “Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.” ― James Baldwin
49. “When love is not madness it is not love.” ― Pedro Calderón de la Barca
50. “Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” ― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
51. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu
52. “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” ― Albert Einstein
53. “Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.” – Author Unknown
54. “You don’t have to go looking for love when it’s where you come from.” – Werner Erhard
55. “True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.” – François, duc de La Rochefoucauld
56. “Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.” – Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966
57. “Who, being loved, is poor?” – Oscar Wilde
58. “You really shouldn’t say “I love you” unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.” – Author unknown
59. “Love is a game that two can play and both win.” – Eva Gabor
60. “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
61. “We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.” – Tom Robbins
62. “Love is not blind – it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.” – Julius Gordon
63. “It’s so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you.” – Author Unknown
64. “Love means nothing in tennis, but it’s everything in life.” – Author Unknown
65. “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” – 1 Corinthians 13:13 (NIV)
There you have it! So what’s your favorite quote about love? I hope you’ve enjoyed reading the inspiring quotes above. This is definitely perfect to share with your special someone.
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