Quotes About Love

1. “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” 
   — James Baldwin 

2. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” 
   —  Lucille Ball 

3. “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” 
   — Morrie Schwartz 

4. “Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.” 
   — Lord Byron 

5. “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” 
   — Herman Hesse 

6. “I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.” 
   — Roy Croft 

7. “Love is a friendship set to music.” 
   —  Joseph Campbell 

8. “We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.” 
   — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

9. “When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.” 
   — Blaise Pascal 

10. “Love in its essence is spiritual fire.” 
    — Seneca 

11. “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” 
    — Gilbert K. Chesterton 

12. “Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.” 
    — Leo Buscaglia 

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

14. “There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” 
    — George Sand 

15. “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 

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

17. “You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.” 
    — Julia Roberts 

18. “At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” 
    — Plato 

19. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.” 
    — Alfred Tennyson 

20. “When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” 
    — Marcus Aurelius 

21. “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.”  
    — Helen Keller 

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

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

24. “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 

25. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” 
    – Buddha 

26. “You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” 
    — Dr. Seuss 

27. “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” 
    — Khalil Gibran 

28. “’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” 
    — Alfred Lord Tennyson 

29. “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 

30. “The art of love is largely the art of persistence.” 
    — Albert Ellis 

31. “If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.” 
    — Benjamin Franklin 

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33. “Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” 
    — Euripides 

34. “Love does not dominate; it cultivates.” 
    — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
     

35. “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 

36. “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” 
    — Martin Luther King, Jr. 

37. “A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.” 
    – Andrew Matthews 

38. “We are most alive when we’re in love.” 
    — John Updike 

39. “The love we give away is the only love we keep.” 
    — Elbert Hubbard 

40. “The giving of love is an education in itself.” 
    — Eleanor Roosevelt 

41. “The more one judges, the less one loves.” 
    — Honore de Balzac 

42. “Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” 
    — Pablo Neruda 

43. “A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” 
    — Ingrid Bergman 

44. “You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.”  
    — Diane Von Furstenberg 

45. “Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’” 
    — Erich Fromm 

46. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” 
    — Lao Tzu 

47. “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.” 
    — Sophocles 

48. “Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.” 
    — Andre Breton 

49. “Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all.” 
    — Ernest Hemingway 

50. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” 
    — Elbert Hubbard 

51. “Love is a better teacher than duty.” 
    — Albert Einstein 

52. “True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” 
    — Erich Segal 

53. “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 

54. “The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” 
    — Hubert H. Humphrey 

55. “Every person has to love at least one bad partner in their lives to be truly thankful for the right one.” 
    — Unknown 

56. “There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” 
    – Anaïs Nin 

57. “Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.” 
    — James Thurber 

58. “The best proof of love is trust.” 
    — Joyce Brothers 

59. “A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.” 
    — Honore de Balzac 

60. “A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.” 
    — Josh Billings 

61. “Fortune and love favor the brave.” 
    — Ovid 

62. “For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” 
    — Carl Sagan 

63. “To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.” 
    — T. Tolis 

64. “Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.” 
    — David Wilkerson 

65. “Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.” 
    — Wayne Dyer 

66. “Where there is love there is life.” 
    — Mahatma Gandhi 

67. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” 
    — Robert A. Heinlein 

68. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” 
    — Martin Luther King Jr. 

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

70. “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 

71. “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” 
    — Charles Schulz