50 Short Inspirational Love Quotes to Brighten Your Day

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

- Søren Kierkegaard

"Choose, everyday, to forgive yourself. You are human, flawed, and most of all worthy of love."

- Alison Malee

"To hate is an easy lazy thing but to love takes strength everyone has but not all are willing to practice."

- Rupi Kaur

"You will find your way. It is in the same place as your love."

- Nayyirah Waheed

"The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love."

- Henry Miller

"For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time; hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule."

- Friedrich Max Muller

"Love is not about property, diamonds, and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you."

- Pablo Neruda

"Let the love you give come back and find a place in you."

- Harpreet M. Dayal

"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

"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back."

- Arthur Rubinstein

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

- Lao Tzu

"Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do."

- David Wilkerson

"Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself."

- Leo Buscaglia

"Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."

- Kahil Gibran

"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 Shelly

"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."

- Khalil Gibran

"Two hearts in love need no words."

- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

"What will survive of us is love."

- Philip Larkin

"We are asleep until we fall in love!"

- Leo Tolstoy

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

- William Shakespeare

"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

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

- Victor Hugo

"The smile is the beginning of love."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Ice-T

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

- Robert A. Heinlein

"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."

- Eric Fromm

"Love does not dominate; it cultivates."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"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 loves to love love."

- James Joyce

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

- Buddha

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

- Dolly Parton

"This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

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

- Robert Frost

"In love there are two things– bodies and words."

- Joyce Carol Oates

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold."

- Zelda Fitzgerald

"Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

- Joan Crawford

"I love her and it is the beginning of everything."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"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

"Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary."

- Oscar Wilde

"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

"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

"The giving of love is an education in itself."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The way the world is right now, we need more love."

- Stevie Wonder

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

- Carl Sagan

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Lao Tzu

"Wisdom tells me I am nothing, love tells me I am everything. Between the two, my life flows."

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

"Love is the absence of judgment."

- Dalai Lama

"Cherish the things you love. Cherish yourself."

- Marie Kondo

"We can love what we are, without hating what, and who, we are not."

- Kofi Annan

"Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."

- Mother Teresa

"We all have hearts… If you have a heart, love somebody. If you have enough heart, love everybody."

- Stevie Wonder

"Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love."

- Claude Monet

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Andre Gide

"All the people in your life are truly doing the best they can with what they have. People can only love you to the capacity that they are able to love themselves. They can only forgive and embrace you to the capacity that they are able to forgive and embrace themselves. They can only give you what they have the capacity to give. You may think that you deserve more, and you may be correct. But that means nothing if a person simply doesn’t have the ability to give it to you."

- Lisa Nichols

"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 13:4-8. Holy Bible: New International Version

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."

- Lucille Ball

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

- Paulo Coelho

"Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers."

- Veronica A. Shoffstall

"You have to learn to get up from the table when love is no longer being served."

- Nina Simone

"Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable."

- David W. Augsburger

"There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life."

- John Lennon

"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

"Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives."

- Louise Hay

"To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that’s political, in its most profound way."

- June Jordan

"Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic."

- Martin Luther King

"When you do not require a person to show up as you imagine you need them to be, then you can drop expectation. Then you love them exactly as they are. Yet this can only happen when you love your Self exactly as you are."

- N. D. Walsch

"If only you could love enough, you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the universe."

- Emmet Fox

"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."

- Oscar Wilde

"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

"Don’t make your community and loved ones guess what you need. It’s not fair to them. Instead, proactively tell them—in an uplifting way—how to love you."

- Lisa Nichols

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"Love is one of the most powerful healing tools in the universe. Most people forget to use it to build rapport, to deepen their relatedness, and to mend the upset that underlies disagreement and expectation. Sprinkle more love and you will heal only 100% of the time."

- Monika Zands

"Behold thyself in glory. Love thyself as I love you. In this way you honour me. It is my duty to love myself deeply, totally, unconditionally. To see myself as something of great worth. To do less is to deny the task for which I was born. What of my faults and inadequacies? I resolve to love them as part of who I am. I am beautiful because of them. They are part of my uniqueness, like markings on a wild animal. They give me flavour. Make me real. I allow myself and others to make mistakes, miss opportunities and make foolish decisions. I recognise and accept my vulnerability and fragility. My quirks and idiosyncrasies—all part of who I am. I am beautiful and special because of my humanness—in fact, this is where my true beauty lies. As the day accepts the sun and the night accepts the moon, so I accept myself. And so I become complete and whole."

- John Kehoe

"Love is, in fact, an intensification of life, a completeness, a fullness, a wholeness of life."

- Thomas Merton

"Love cures people—both the ones who gives it and the ones who receive it."

- Karl Menninger

"Eventually you will comes to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is."

- Gary Zukav

"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver."

- Barbara De Angelis

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

- Zora Neale Hurston

"When we feel love and kindness toward others, if not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace."

- Dalai Lama

"Perhaps the biggest mistake I made in the past was that I believed love was about finding the right person. In reality, love is about becoming the right person."

- Neil Strauss

"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

"We must strive everyday so that love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force."

- Ernesto Che Guevara

"Make everyday decisions from a place of love."

- Anita Moorjani

"There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier."

- Melissa Etheridge

"Love is a verb. Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb."

- Stephen Covey

"Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did."

- C.S. Lewis

"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful, and optimistic. And we’ll change the world."

- Jack Layton

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."

- Jimi Hendrix

"In love, one and one are one."

- Jean-Paul Sartre

"The greatest pleasure in life is love."

- Euripides

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

- Plato

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

- Socrates

"Love is the beauty of the soul."

- Saint Augustine

"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

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- John Keats

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

- János Arany

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

- Aristotle

"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

"Where there is love there is life."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- St. Augustine

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

- Marcel Proust

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Plato

"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

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

- Khalil Gibran

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

- Plato

"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

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

- Aberjhani

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Natalie Cole

"you can walk with love and reverence."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Lao Tzu

"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

"All you need is love."

- The Beatles

"True love stories never have endings."

- Richard Bach

"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

"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

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Emily Brontë

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- William Shakespeare

"We can only learn to love by loving."

- Iris Murdoch

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

- Judy Collins

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

- St. Augustine

"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

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

- Leo Buscaglia

"We accept the love we think we deserve."

- Stephen Chbosky

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

- Victor Hugo

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

- Elbert Hubbard

"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 shown more in deeds than in words."

- Saint Ignatius

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

- Jesus Christ

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

- Houssaye

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

- William Shakespeare

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

- Don Byas

"Love is friendship on fire."

- Susan Sontag

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

- Tom Wolfe

"Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."

- Franklin P. Jones

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

- Charles Dickens

"My soul and your soul are forever tangled."

- N.R. Hart

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

- Madame de Stael

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

- Barbara De Angelis

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

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"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

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

- Carl Sagan

"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

"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

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

- Madonna

"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 emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few."

- George Jean Nathan

"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

"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

"It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them."

- Agatha Christie

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

- Marge Piercy

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

- Nikki Giovanni

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

- Joan Baez

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

- Lao Tzu

"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

"Trust your intuition and be guided by love."

- Charles Eisenstein

"Love is not a volunteer thing."

- Samuel Richardson

"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

"Love is being stupid together."

- Paul Valery

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Lisa Hoffman

"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

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"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 sharing your popcorn."

- Charles Schultz

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

- Lily Tomlin

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

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

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