In life, there are mountains and valleys, times of uncertainty and times of bliss, but “nothing can bring more joy to life than beautifully fulfilling relationships,” as personal development legend Jim Rohn said. According to him, the keys to healthy relationships are communication, patience, loyalty, common goals, an element of fun—and love.
Read and share these inspirational quotes about love to bring a little love into your life and the lives of others:
Inspiring Quotes About Love
- “Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you.” —Pablo Neruda
- “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 is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”—Robert A. Heinlein
- “A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” —Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
- “Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.” —David Wilkerson
- “Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”—Mother Teresa
- “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.”—Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did.” —C.S. Lewis
- “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
- “Love is, in fact, an intensification of life, a completeness, a fullness, a wholeness of life.”—Thomas Merton
- “I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” —Arthur Rubinstein
- “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that’s what you’ve given me. That’s what I’d hoped to give you forever” —Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
- “Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” —Lao Tzu
- “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” —Mother Teresa
- “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” —Oscar Wilde
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Deep Quotes About Love
- “You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.” —Henry Drummond
- “Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible—it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.” —Barbara De Angelis
- “To hate is an easy lazy thing but to love takes strength everyone has but not all are willing to practice.” —Rupi Kaur
- “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.” —John Lennon
- “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
- “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
- “Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.” —Zelda Fitzgerald
- “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”—Dalai Lama
- “The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.” —Henry Miller
- “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” —Zora Neale Hurston
- “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” —Lao Tzu
- “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, “On Marriage”
Related: How Do You Practice Self-Love?
True Love Quotes
- “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” —Dr. Seuss
- “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
- “For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” ―Judy Garland
- “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” —James Baldwin
- “Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is a quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.” —Ann Landers
- “Love is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars
- “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
- “That moment, when you kiss someone and everything around becomes hazy and the only thing in focus is you and this person and you realize that that person is the only person that you’re supposed to kiss for the rest of your life.” —Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein, Never Been Kissed
- “Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.” —Karl A. Menninger
- “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” —Maya Angelou
- “Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. Your mind is my treasure, and if it were broken, it would be my treasure still.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
- “The best proof of love is trust.” —Joyce Brothers
- “The first duty of love is to listen.” —Paul Tillich
Related: Why Self-Love Is Important And How To Practice It
Self-Love Quotes
- “To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.” —Robert Morley
- “Self-love is an ocean and your heart is a vessel. Make it full, and any excess will spill over into the lives of the people you hold dear. But you must come first.” —Beau Taplin
- “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.” —Buddha
- “Loving yourself isn’t vanity; it’s sanity.” —André Gide
- “If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.” —Barbara De Angelis
- “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” —Lucille Ball
- “Treat yourself like someone you love.” —Glennon Doyle, Love Warrior
- “We must be our own before we can be another’s.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Our first and last love is self-love.” —Christian Nestell Bovee
- “How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.” —Rupi Kaur
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