50 Inspirational Love Quotes to Ignite Your Heart

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

- Saint Ignatius

"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 Müller

"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

"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"

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

- Andre Breton

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Elinor Glyn

"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

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

- James Thurber

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

- Sophocles

"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

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

- Pablo Coelho

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

- Andre Gide

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

- Bertrand Russell

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Confucius

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

- Rumi

"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

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

- Buddha

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

- William Shakespeare

"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

"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

"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

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

- William Shakespeare

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

- Don Byas

"We can only learn to love by loving."

- Iris Murdoch

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

- Leo Buscaglia

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

- Victor Hugo

"All you need is love."

- The Beatles

"True love stories never have endings."

- Richard Bach

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

- Mother Teresa

"Love is not a volunteer thing."

- Samuel Richardson

"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

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

- Elbert Hubbard

"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

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

- Nikki Giovanni

"My soul and your soul are forever tangled."

- N.R. Hart

"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.

"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

"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

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

- Lao Tzu

"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

"Where there is love there is life."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Carl Sagan

"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

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

- Buddha

"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

"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

"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

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

- E. Leventhal

"If I had to choose between breathing and loving you I would use my last breath to tell you I love you."

- DeAnna Anderson

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

- Princess Diana

"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

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

- Rae Carson

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

- Charles Dickens

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

- Leann Rimes

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

- Sally Rooney

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

- Jamie McGuire

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

- Sarah McLachlan

"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

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Ian McEwan

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

- Torquato Tasso

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Zelda Fitzgerald

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

- Nicholas Sparks

"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, "My Sister's Keeper"

"Familiar acts are beautiful through love."

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

- Bertrand Russell

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

- Milan Kundera

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

- Roy Croft

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

- Loretta Young

"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

"We're all a little weird, and life's a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it LOVE."

- Dr. Seuss

"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

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

- 1 Corinthians 13

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Aristotle

"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

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

- Eva Gabor

"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

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

- Yoko Ono

"Love recognizes no barriers."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Sam McBratney

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

- Goo Goo Dolls

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

- E.E. Cummings

"Love her but leave her wild."

- Atticus

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

- Savage Garden

"I love you if you love me."

- Roberto Cavalli

"Love is the absence of judgment."

- Dalai Lama

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

- Jean Anouilh

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

- John Morton

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

- Albert Einstein

"Love is a friendship set to music."

- Joseph Campbell

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Ben Folds, "The Luckiest"

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

- Victor Hugo

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

- Leo Tolstoy

"To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything."

- T. Tolis

"In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy."

- Theodor Reik

"Maybe the only vow we ever need to offer the one we love is this: I will never, not for a sliver of a second, make you feel alone."

- Tyler Knott Gregson

"There's no substitute for a great love who says, 'No matter what's wrong with you, you're welcome at this table.'"

- Tom Hanks

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

- Sophocles

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

- Moulin Rouge

"And remember, as it was written, to love another person is to see the face of God."

- Victor Hugo, "Les Miserables"

"Don’t forget I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her."

- Julia Roberts

"You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you."

- Jane Austen's "Pride & Prejudice"

"Once I knew you I never wanted to know anyone else."

- Leo Christopher

"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop."

- H. L. Mencken

"I never want to stop making memories with you."

- Pierre Jeanty

"We were together. I forget the rest."

- Walt Whitman

"P.S. I love you."

- Cecelia Ahern

"I love you past the moon and miss you beyond the stars."

- J.M. Storm

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

- Nat King Cole, "Nature Boy"

"And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make."

- Sir Paul McCartney, "The End" (by The Beatles)

"All of me loves all of you."

- John Legend, "All of Me"

"However far away, I will always love you. However long I stay, I will always love you. Whatever words I say, I will always love you. I will always love you."

- The Cure, "Lovesong"

"You and me together, through the days and nights. I don't worry 'cause everything's gonna be alright."

- Alicia Keys, "No One"

"It was always you."

- Maroon 5, "It Was Always You"

"And when you’re needing your space to do some navigating, I’ll be here patiently waiting to see what you find."

- Jason Mraz, "I Won't Give Up"

"Before the day I met you, life was so unkind. But you're the key to my peace of mind."

- Aretha Franklin, "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman"

"You give me the most gorgeous sleep that I've ever had."

- No Doubt, "Underneath It All"

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."

- Charles Schulz

"I still haven't figured out how to sit across from you, and not be madly in love with everything you do."

- William C. Hannan

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

- Leo Christopher

"We are shaped and fashioned by those we love."

- Geothe

"When love is not madness it is not love."

- Pedro Calderón de la Barca

"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

"You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"There is a madness in loving you, a lack of reason that makes it feel so flawless."

- Leo Christopher

"Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do."

- J.D. Salinger

"How strange to dream of you even when I am wide awake."

- d.j.

"I love that you are my person and I am yours, that whatever door we come to, we will open it together."

- A.R. Asher

"I was, and I remain, utterly and completely and totally in love with you."

- J.R. Ward

"I love you, idiot."

- Gilmore Girls

"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

"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

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

- John Green

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

- Elaine Davis

"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

"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 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

"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

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

- Patsy Cline

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

- One Republic

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

- Herman Hesse, "Narcissus and Goldmund"

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

- Leo Christopher

"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"

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

- Brendan Francis

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

- Pablo Neruda

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Melvin Udall

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

- Elvis Presley

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

- Robert Browning

"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

"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

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

- Euripides

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

- Jane Austen

"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

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

- Jack Kornfield

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

- Bette Davis

"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

"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 is so short, forgetting is so long."

- Pablo Neruda

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

- Ovid

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

- Theodore Roethke

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Nicholas Sparks

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

- Ben Hecht

"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

"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

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

- Robert A. Heinlein

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

"And of His signs is that He created for you from yourselves mates that you may find tranquility in them; and He placed between you affection and mercy. Indeed in that are signs for a people who give thought."

- Qur'an, Surah Ar-Rum - 21

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

- Elvis Presley

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

- Etta James

"Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love."

- Ephesians 4:2

"And in this crazy life and through these crazy times, it's you, it's you. You make me sing. You're every line, you're every word, you're everything."

- Michael Bublé

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

- Nat King Cole

"There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been perfected in love."

- 1 John 4:18

"Don't just pretend to love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Hold tightly to what is good. Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other."

- Romans 12:9-15

"But Ruth said, 'Do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God.'"

- Ruth 1:16

"Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves."

- Romans 12:10

"Through weakness and strength, happiness and sorrow, for better, for worse; I will love you with every beat of my heart."

- Shania Twain

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Jesus Christ

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

- Emily Brontë

"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

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

- Robert Frost

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"We accept the love we think we deserve."

- Stephen Chbosky

"People falling in love."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

"My dream wouldn't be complete without you in it."

- The Princess and the Frog

"It's like in that moment the whole universe existed just to bring us together."

- Serendipity

"I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you."

- Pocahontas

"I've come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is, and always will be, yours."

- Sense and Sensibility

"I wish I had done everything on earth with you."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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

- Tarzan

"It seems right now that all I've ever done in my life is making my way here to you."

- Bridges of Madison County

"So this is love. So this is what makes life divine."

- Cinderella

"I look at you, and I'm home."

- Finding Nemo

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

- Winnie the Pooh

"You don't marry someone you can live with, you marry the person you cannot live without."

- P.S. I Love You

"Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove. O no! it is an ever-fixed mark, that looks on tempests and is never shaken."

- Sonnet 116

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

- Zora Neale Hurston

"In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find someone who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you."

- Juno

"You had me at 'hello.'"

- Jerry Maguire

"If you say run, I'll run with you. And if you say hide, we'll hide. Because my love for you would break my heart in two if you should fall into my arms and tremble like a flower."

- David Bowie

"When I first saw you, I saw love. And the first time you touched me, I felt love. And after all this time, you're still the one I love."

- Shania Twain

"I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day."

- Nicholas Sparks, "The Notebook"

"It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together, and I knew it. I knew it the first time I touched her. It was like coming home, only to no home I'd ever known. I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew it. It was like magic."

- Sleepless in Seattle

"And if you ever forget how much you really mean to me, every day I will remind you."

- Bruno Mars

"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

"Yours is the first face that I saw. I think I was blind before I met you. Now I don't know where I am, I don't know where I've been, but I know where I want to go."

- Bright Eyes

"You have bewitched me, body and soul."

- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

"What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down."

- It's a Wonderful Life

"It's very clear. Our love is here to stay. Not for a year, but ever and a day."

- Billie Holiday

"Close your eyes and I'll kiss you. Tomorrow I'll miss you. Remember I'll always be true. And then while I'm away, I'll write home everyday. And I'll send all my loving to you."

- The Beatles

"I see your face in every flower, your eyes in stars above. It's just the thought of you; the very thought of you, my love."

- Nat King Cole, "The Very Thought of You"

"If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were."

- Richard Bach

"I do love nothing in the world so well as you."

- Much Ado About Nothing

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

- A Midsummer Night's Dream

"Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly at your service."

- The Tempest

"Love comforteth like sunshine after rain."

- Venus and Adonis

"I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest."

- Much Ado About Nothing

"Some people are worth melting for."

- Frozen

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

- The Lion King

"All at once everything looks different, now that I see you."

- Tangled

"Love is a song that never ends."

- Bambi

"You mean more to me than anyone in this whole world."

- Peter Pan

"You are my greatest adventure."

- The Incredibles

"One song, my heart keeps singing, of one love only for you."

- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

"Love is an open door."

- Frozen

"Each happy ending's a brand new beginning."

- Enchanted

"People always do crazy things when they're in love."

- Hercules

"For it is plain as anyone can see, we're simply meant to be."

- The Nightmare Before Christmas

"To face the future with another, who means more than any other, is to be loved."

- The Rescuers

"You, you make loving fun. And I don't have to tell you, but you're the only one."

- Fleetwood Mac, "You Make Loving Fun"

"The only heaven I'll be sent to is when I'm alone with you."

- Hozier, "Take Me to Church"

"Open your door, I'll be your tenant. Don't got much baggage to lay at your feet. But sweet kisses, I've got to spare. I'll be there, and I'll cover you."

- RENT, "I'll Cover You"

"My heart's been borrowed and yours has been blue. All's well that ends well to end up with you."

- Taylor Swift, "Lover"

"I've loved her in secret. I've loved her out loud."

- The Highwomen, "If She Ever Leaves Me"

"You know I dreamed about you for twenty-nine years before I saw you. You know I dreamed about you. I missed you for, for twenty-nine years."

- "Slow Show, "The National

"I never get bored of lookin' at you 'cause every time I see somethin' new."

- girl in red, "Watch You Sleep"

"Don't read the last page. But I stay when you're lost, and I'm scared, and you're turning away. I want your midnights. But I'll be cleaning up bottles with you on New Year's Day."

- Taylor Swift, "New Year's Day"

"Things will come out right now, we can make it so. Someone is on your side. No one is alone."

- Into the Woods, "No One Is Alone"

"Are the stars out tonight? I don't know if it's cloudy or bright. I only have eyes for you, dear."

- The Flamingos, "I Only Have Eyes for You"

"I feel safe when you're holding me near. Love the way that you conquer your fear. You know hearts don't break around here."

- Ed Sheeren, "Hearts Don't Break Around Here"

"Don't promise me fair sky above. Don't promise me kind road below. Just walk beside me, love, any way the wind blows."

- Hadestown, "Promises"

"I believe in dreams again. I believe that love will never end. And like the river finds the sea, I was lost. Now I'm free, 'cause I believe in you and me."

- Whitney Houston, "I Believe in You and Me"

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

- St. Augustine

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

- Madonna

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Leo Tolstoy

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great."

- Roger de Rabutin

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."

- Helen Keller

"Love is the absence of judgement."

- Dalai Lama

"The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart."

- Buddha

"Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for your love is better than wine."

- King Solomon, Song of Songs 1:2

"Radiate boundless love towards the entire world—above, below, and across—unhindered, without ill will, without enmity."

- Buddha

"Love and compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion."

- Dalai Lama

"A husband and wife are one soul, separated only through their descent to this world. When they are married, they are reunited again."

- Zohar, 191a

"Call me by your name, and I'll call you by mine."

- Call Me By Your Name

"Swoon. I'll catch you."

- The English Patient

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

- Oscar Wilde

"I can't do everything, but I'd do anything for you. I can't do anything except be in love with you."

- Dire Straits

"We'll lay here for years or for hours, your hand in my hand, so still and discreet."

- Hozier

"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

"Do all lovers feel they're inventing something?"

- Portrait of a Lady on Fire

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

- Rumi

"From here on after, let's stay the way we are right now; And share all the love and laughter that a lifetime will allow."

- George Strait

"It feels like springtime in winter; it feels like Christmas in June. It feels like heaven has opened up it's gates for me and you."

- Babyface feat. Mariah Carey

"Isn't it just so pretty to think all along there was some invisible string tying you to me?"

- Taylor Swift

"Lying in your arms, could be Jupiter or Mars. You say I hang the stars in your eyes, but you put the universe in mine."

- Kelsea Ballerini

"Never knew the best was yet to come. Life began when I saw your face, and I hear your laugh like a serenade."

- The Chicks

"'Cause even when there is no star in sight, you'll always be my only guiding light."

- Mumford & Sons

"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."

- Emma

"And if heaven and hell decide that they both are satisfied, illuminate the no's on their vacancy signs; if there's no one beside you when your soul embarks then I'll follow you into the dark."

- Death Cab for Cutie

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

- Charles Dickens

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

- Zelda Fitzgerald

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

- Elizabeth Evans

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

- Cate Blanchett

"You're the best friend that I ever had. I've been with you such a long time. You're my sunshine and I want you to know."

- Queen

"That's what happens when innocent friends turn serious lovers. And we're so happy that we've fallen in love and still can be best of friends."

- Whitney Houston

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

- Dolly Parton

"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

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

- George Burns

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

- Joyce Carol Oates

"Lonely days of uncertainty, they disappear when you're near me, when you're around my life's worthwhile, and now I long to see you smile."

- Big Star

"Be a best friend, tell the truth and overuse 'I love you.'"

- Lee Brice

"Now everybody asks me why I'm smiling out from ear to ear."

- Beyoncé

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

- Thomas Dewar

"I remember the first day I ever looking into your eyes and felt my entire world flip."

"We fight, we kiss, we hug, we text, we talk, we argue, we laugh, we smile, we love ... That's us."

"You can't rush something you want to last forever."

"I choose you. And I'll choose you over and over and over. Without pause, without a doubt, in a heartbeat. I'll keep choosing you."

"I realized I was thinking of you, and I began to wonder how long you'd been on my mind. Then it occurred to me: Since I met you, you've never left."

"It's not being in love that makes me happy. It is the person that I am in love with that does."

"Love you more."

"Saw your worst and I stayed."

"I looked at him as a friend until I realized I loved him."

"Darling, you are all I ever wanted love to be."

"You are what I need in my life. You are my one."

"I'll never have enough of your lips."

"The first time you touched me, I knew I was born to be yours."

"If you only knew how much those little moments with you mattered to me."

"And when I loved you, I realized, I have never truly loved anyone. I realized, I never will truly love anyone the way I love you."

"I wish I could turn back the clock. I'd find you sooner and love you longer."

"Sometimes, someone comes into your life, so unexpectedly, takes your heart by surprise, and changes your life forever."

"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."

"And suddenly all the love songs were about you."

"If I did anything right in my life, it was when I gave my heart to you."

"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."

"I want you. All of you. Your flaws. Your mistakes. Your imperfections. I want you, and only you."

"I fall more deeply in love with you, every single day."

"If you are lucky enough to find a weirdo, never let them go."

"Because I could watch you for a single minute and find a thousand things that I love about you."

"I'm much more me when I'm with you."

"Someone who really loves you sees what a mess you can be, how moody you can get, how hard you are to handle, but still wants you."

"In French, you don't say 'I miss you.' You say 'Tu me manques', which means 'you are missing from me.' I love that."

"Real love doesn't meet you at your best. It meets you in your mess."

"Your voice is my favorite sound."

"You are my favorite notification."

"I love you. You annoy me more than I ever thought possible. But I want to spend every irritating minute with you."

"If I could give you one thing in life, I would give you the ability to see yourself through my eyes, only then would you realize how special you are to me."

"I can't promise to fix all your problems, but I can promise you won't have to face them all alone."

"I am totally completely eye-popping seriously groundbreaking passionately deliciously in love with you."

"There's only one thing that cuts through all our realities and that's love—the bridge between all our differences."

"I just wanna see you. Hold you. Hug you. Touch you. Kiss you. Cuddle with you. Love you."

"Because through love, we feel the intensity of our connection to everything and everyone. And at the core we are all the same. We're all one."

"You're pretty much my most favorite of all time in the history of ever."

"Two hearts that beat as one; our lives have just begun"

"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."

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

"You're all my heart ever talks about."