Love Quotes

"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart."

- Washington Irving

"Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third."

- Marge Piercy

"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back."

- Barbara de Angelis

"People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end."

- Madame de Staël

"Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few."

- George Jean Nathan

"Love is more than a noun – it is a verb; it is more than a feeling – it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing."

- William Arthur Ward

"Love is a choice you make from moment to moment."

- Barbara de Angelis

"We need not think alike to love alike."

- Francis David

"Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were."

- Moliere

"Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other."

- Felix Adler

"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love."

- Lao Tzu

"When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities, and so on. When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace."

- Dalai Lama

"People falling in love."

- Albert Einstein

"Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses."

- Thomas Dewar

"Love is a lot like a backache, it doesn’t show up on X-rays, but you know it’s there."

- George Burns

"I love you more than coffee, but please don’t make me prove it."

- Elizabeth Evans

"We accept the love we think we deserve."

- Stephen Chbosky

"You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life."

- Bob Marley

"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all."

- St. Augustine

"The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence."

- Dalai Lama

"Where there is love there is life."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return."

- Madonna

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other."

- Audrey Hepburn

"The chance to love and be loved exists no matter where you are."

- Oprah Winfrey

"I believe there are some things in life you can’t deny or rationalize, and [love] is one of them."

- Cate Blanchett

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."

- Robert Frost