100 Inspirational Love Quotes to Warm Your Heart and Soul

"Love never claims, it ever gives. Love never suffers, never resents, never revenges itself."

- Gandhi

"Love must be as much a light as it is a flame."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Every heart sings a song incomplete until another heart whispers back."

- Plato

"Love recognizes no barriers."

- Maya Angelou

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love!"

- Sophocles

"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality."

- Emily Dickinson

"The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved..."

- Victor Hugo

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"True love is inexhaustible. The more you give, the more you have."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds."

- St. Augustine

"Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one."

- John Keats

"The smile is the beginning of love."

- Mother Teresa

"Love is the beauty of the soul."

- Saint Augustine

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."

- Victor Hugo

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."

- William Shakespeare

"If you find me not within you, you will never find me. For I have been with you, from the beginning of me."

- Rumi

"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."

- Leo Tolstoy

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

- Lao Tzu

"I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you."

- Roy Croft

"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."

- Emily Brontë

"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

"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."

- Mother Teresa

"Doubt thou the stars are fire. Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar. But never doubt I love."

- William Shakespeare

"There is no remedy for love but to love more."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud."

- 1 Corinthians 13

"I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you."

- Roy Croft

"Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."

- James Baldwin

"We loved with a love that was more than love."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"I have found the one whom my soul loves."

- Song of Solomon 3:4

"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."

- Helen Keller

"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."

- Kahlil Gibran

"My bounty is as boundless as the sea, / My love as deep; the more I give to thee, / The more I have, for both are infinite."

- William Shakespeare

"You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."

- Jane Austen

"The madness of love, the greatest of heaven’s blessings."

- Plato

"Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood."

- Oscar Wilde

"I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow."

- Leo Christopher

"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

"Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes."

- 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

"All you need is love."

- The Beatles

"You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."

- Dr. Seuss

"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."

- Victor Hugo

"So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you."

- Pablo Coelho

"I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"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

"If I know what love is, it is because of you."

- Herman Hesse, "Narcissus and Goldmund"

"I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being."

- Dalai Lama

"The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is to love and be loved in return."

- Natalie Cole

"I have decided to stick to love; hate is too great a burden to bear."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

- Buddha

"In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine."

- Maya Angelou

"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

"Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be."

- Robert Browning

"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

"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

"I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul."

- Pablo Neruda

"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

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."

- C.S. Lewis

"You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s heaven on earth."

- William W. Purkey

"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

"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."

- Anais Nin

"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

"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

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

- Charles Dickens

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

- Lao Tzu

"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another."

- Jesus Christ

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"

- Erich Fromm

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive."

- Dalai Lama

"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule."

- Buddha

"Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature."

- Plato

"Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice."

- Erich Fromm

"Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."

- Robert Fulghum

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever."

- Alfred Tennyson

"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."

- David Viscott

"Everywhere I’m looking now, I’m surrounded by your embrace. Baby, I can see your halo. You know you’re my saving grace."

- Beyonce

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."

- Plato

"To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with."

- Mark Twain

"I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight."

- Vladimir Nabokov

"At last, my love has come along. My lonely days are over, and life is like a song."

- Etta James

"The regret of my life is that I have not said ‘I love you’ often enough."

- Yoko Ono

"Love is something eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence."

- Vincent van Gogh

"What will survive of us is love."

- Philip Larkin

"My love for you has no depth, its boundaries are ever-expanding."

- Christina White

"Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow."

- Rosemonde Gerard

"Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering."

- Nicole Krauss

"If I never see you again I will always carry you inside, outside; on my fingertips and at brain edges and in centers centers of what I am of what remains."

- Charles Bukowski

"He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."

- Emily Brontë

"You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought."

- Arthur Conan Doyle

"I belong to my beloved, and my beloved is mine."

- Jamie McGuire

"The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time."

- Julia Child

"If not for you, my sky would fall. Rain would gather, too. Without your love, I’d be nowhere at all. I’d be lost, if not for you."

- Bob Dylan

"I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once."

- The Fault in Our Stars

"They say love is the best investment; the more you give, the more you get in return."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you."

- Walter Winchell

"Love is a gift of one’s inner most soul to another so both can be whole."

- Buddha

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

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving."

- Paulo Coelho

"True love is rare, and it’s the only thing that gives life real meaning."

- Nicholas Sparks

"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

"When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable."

- Jess C. Scott

"You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not."

- Jodi Picoult

"Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost."

- Milan Kundera

"Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you."

- Loretta Young

"Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear."

- Charlotte Brontë

"I love you right up to the moon—and back."

- Sam McBratney

"You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars."

- E.E. Cummings

"I knew I loved you before I met you."

- Savage Garden

"Love is the absence of judgment."

- Dalai Lama

"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself."

- Jean Anouilh

"You can’t blame gravity for falling in love."

- Albert Einstein

"Love is a friendship set to music."

- Joseph Campbell

"I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you."

- Ben Folds, "The Luckiest"

"You are all of my today and all of my tomorrows."

- Leo Christopher

"You have bewitched me, body and soul."

- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

"Any day spent with you is my favorite day."

- Winnie the Pooh

"And in her smile I see something more beautiful than the stars."

- Beth Revis

"Yes, you’ll be in my heart. From this day on, now and forever more."

- Phil Collins

"You are the butter to my bread, and the breath to my life."

- Julia Child

"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

"It’s always better when we’re together."

- Jack Johnson

"I don’t want to close my eyes / I don’t want to fall asleep, cuz I’d miss you babe and I don’t wanna miss a thing"

- Aerosmith

"Cause all of me loves all of you."

- John Legend

"In case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you."

- Virginia Woolf

"Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life."

- Leo Buscaglia

"The first duty of love is to listen."

- Paul Tillich

"Soul meets soul on lover’s lips."

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

"When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love…"

- Marcus Aurelius

"To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written."

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined to strengthen each other and to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories."

- George Eliot

"Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for."

- Immanuel Kant

"And think not that you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course."

- Kahlil Gibran

"I will love you all my life and when I die, I will still love you through eternity and beyond."

- Leann Rimes

"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love."

- Virgil

"To love and be loved is the most natural expression of our being."

- Deepak Chopra

"Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey."

- Lord Byron

"Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe and transcends all boundaries."

- Deepak Chopra

"True love is borne from understanding."

- Buddha

"Love does not dominate; it cultivates."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Let love be your guide in all actions and decisions."

- Buddha

"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity."

- Henry van Dyke

"We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver."

- Thomas a' Kempis

"To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic."

- Alphonse de Lamartine

"A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love."

- Max Müller

"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love."

- Carl Sagan

"We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."

- Tom Robbins

"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart."

- Honore de Balzac

"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another."

- George Eliot

"This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about."

- Marilyn Monroe

"You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect—you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break—her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there."

- Bob Marley

"I'm in love with you," he said quietly. "Augustus," I said. "I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you."

- John Green

"I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.."

- Nicholas Sparks

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd."

- William Shakespeare

"Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it."

- Nicholas Sparks

"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"

"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. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave. A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master..."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"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."

- Anais Nin

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever."

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while."

- William Goldman

"Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."

- Franklin P. Jones

"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea."

- Honore de Balzac

"Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination."

- Voltaire

"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."

- Walter Benjamin

"In true love it is the soul that envelops the body."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Two hearts in love need no words."

- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

"Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

- Louis Ginzberg

"Love is space and time measured with the heart."

- Marcel Proust

"Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."

- Samuel Johnson

"We are asleep until we fall in love!"

- Leo Tolstoy

"Fortune and love favour the brave."

- Ovid

"True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can be denied where it does."

- Torquato Tasso

"Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law."

- Boethius

"Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be."

- Anton Chekhov

"The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed."

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

"If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love."

- Princess Diana

"He is not a lover who does not love forever."

- Euripides

"I love you the way a drowning man loves air. And it would destroy me to have you just a little."

- Rae Carson

"In the end we discover that to love and let go can be the same thing."

- Jack Kornfield

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime."

- Bette Davis

"Love is so short, forgetting is so long."

- Pablo Neruda

"If I had to choose between breathing or loving you, I would say ‘I love you’ with my last breath."

- Shannon Dermott

"Love is not love until love’s vulnerable."

- Theodore Roethke

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

- Robert Frost

"For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love."

- Carl Sagan

"She knew she loved him when ‘home’ went from being a place to being a person."

- E. Leventhal

"As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once."

- John Green

"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"

"I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone."

- J.R.R. Tolkien, "Lord of The Rings"

"Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will."

- Elaine Davis

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love."

- Sophocles

"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."

- Charles Dickens

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."

- William Shakespeare

"We can only learn to love by loving."

- Iris Murdoch

"True love stories never have endings."

- Richard Bach

"Love is friendship on fire."

- Susan Sontag

"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, "Winnie the Pooh"

"The love we give away is the only love we keep."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Take my hand, take my whole life too. For I can’t help falling in love with you."

- Elvis Presley

"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

"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."

- Sarah Dessen

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."

- Robert A. Heinlein

"You love me. Real or not real?" I tell him, "Real."

- Suzanne Collins

"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

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."

- Jane Austen

"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."

- Orson Welles

"If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything."

- Marilyn Monroe

"The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time."

- Lawrence Durrell

"True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen."

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"I’m looking for someone to share in an adventure that I’m arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"I look at you, and I’m home."

- Dory

"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell."

- Joan Crawford

"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."

- Bertrand Russell

"Gifts are temporary and often forgotten; love is forever and always remembered."

- Ken Poirot

"Love is a game that two can play and both win."

- Eva Gabor

"Passion makes the world go 'round. Love just makes it a safer place."

- Ice-T

"Familiar acts are beautiful through love."

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Love doesn’t grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, and wild leaps."

- Ian McEwan

"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."

- When Harry Met Sally

"I love you if you love me."

- Roberto Cavalli

"I’m not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me."

- Sally Rooney

"There is no limit to the power of loving."

- John Morton

"Love her but leave her wild."

- Atticus

"This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls."

- Aberjhani

"You’re the closest to heaven, that I’ll ever be."

- Goo Goo Dolls

"What is love? It is the morning and the evening star."

- Sinclair Lewis

"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."

- Zelda Fitzgerald

"Your love is better than ice cream, better than anything else I’ve tried."

- Sarah McLachlan

"Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars."

- Gilbert Parker

"Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing."

- Torquato Tasso

"When you’re a kid, you assume your parents are soulmates. My kids are gonna be right about that."

- Pam Beesly

"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."

- Andre Gide

"Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you."

- William Arthur Ward

"Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person."

- James Thurber

"Love is sharing your popcorn."

- Charles Schultz

"Love is shown more in deeds than in words."

- Saint Ignatius

"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Barbara de Angelis

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

- Lao Tzu

"A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him."

- Brendan Francis

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

- Albert Einstein

"My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness."

- Andre Breton

"To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed."

- Valerie Lombardo

"You make me want to be a better man."

- Melvin Udall

"We love because it’s the only true adventure."

- Nikki Giovanni

"My soul and your soul are forever tangled."

- N.R. Hart

"Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it."

- Nicholas Sparks

"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

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

- Cate Blanchett

"Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age."

- Jeanne Moreau

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

- Washington Irving

"Love is something sent from heaven to worry the hell out of you."

- Dolly Parton

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

- Barbara de Angelis

"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place."

- Zora Neale Hurston

"I need you like a heart needs a beat."

- One Republic

"I’ll be loving you, always with a love that’s true"

- Patsy Cline

"Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting."

- William Shakespeare

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

- Madonna

"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

"The real lover is a man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space."

- Marilyn Monroe

"If one day the moon calls you by your name don't be surprised, because every night I tell her about you."

- Shahrazad al-Khalij

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."

- Rumi

"Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears."

- Ovid

"We must be our own before we can be another’s."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat."

- Ben Hecht

"Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze."

- Elinor Glyn

"This has been my life; I found it worth living."

- Bertrand Russell

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

- Confucius

"Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you."

- Tom Freston

"Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there’s love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong."

- Ella Fitzgerald

"Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world."

- Judy Collins

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."

- Marilyn Monroe

"You call it madness, but I call it love."

- Don Byas

"A life lived in love will never be dull."

- Leo Buscaglia

"Love is not a volunteer thing."

- Samuel Richardson

"Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live."

- Tom Wolfe

"Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."

- Franklin P. Jones

"Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are."

- Houssaye

"Trust your intuition and be guided by love."

- Charles Eisenstein

"That’s all nonviolence is – organized love."

- Joan Baez

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

- Marge Piercy

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

- George Jean Nathan

"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 is being stupid together."

- Paul Valéry

"If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?"

- Lily Tomlin

"Love is like pi – natural, irrational, and very important."

- Lisa Hoffman

"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

"Love means having to say you’re sorry every fifteen minutes."

- John Lennon

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."

- Ingrid Bergman

"Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage."

- Ambrose Bierce

"What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork."

- Pearl Bailey

"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

"I hope you know that every time I tell you to get home safe, stay warm, have a good day, or sleep well what I am really saying is I love you. I love you so damn much that it is starting to steal other words’ meanings."

- Open-365

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

- Aristotle

"In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities."

- János Arany

"Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be."

- Robert Browning

"To love is to burn, to be on fire."

- Jane Austen

"Love is a song that never ends."

- Bambi

"Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces."

"The heart has its reasons which reason does not know."

"To love and be wise is scarcely granted to men."

"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."

"The course of true love never did run smooth."

"It is not love that makes a relationship complicated; it’s the people in it who do."

"Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive."

"Love is like Heaven, but it can hurt like Hell."

"When I say I love you more, I don’t mean I love you more than you love me. I mean I love you more than the bad days ahead of us, I love you more than any fight we will ever have. I love you more than the distance between us, I love you more than any obstacle that could try and come between us. I love you the most."

"Happiness is anyone and anything at all that’s loved by you"

"It’s enough for this restless wanderer just to be with you."

"You’re my one in five billion."

"I’m also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her."