Inspirational Quotes About Love
We are constantly being shaped by the things and beings around us. Our parents shape us from childhood, but that’s just the beginning.We continue to learn and evolve all throughout life. Here’s the thing about love — it’s hard to put into words, no matter how deeply you feel it for your partner.
Below, you will find quotes about love from the people who have walked this earth before us (and from a few who are still here). Timeless and inspiring thoughts written down and spread throughout the decades, centuries and, even millenniums.
Thoughts not only about happy, romantic love but also the love between friends and family.
Inspirational Love Quotes For Everyone
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. Oscar Wilde
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. Helen Keller
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”– William Shakespeare
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
— Morrie Schwartz
— Morrie Schwartz
“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 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 that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
—Robert A. Heinlein
—Robert A. Heinlein
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.” – Peter Ustinov
“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”— Lord Byron
“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
—Lao Tzu
“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”
—Mother Teresa
—Mother Teresa
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 selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.” – Marilyn Monroe
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“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
—Barbara de Angelis
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.”
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.”—Gautama Buddha
Inspiring Love Quotes For Him
A sea of whiskey couldn’t intoxicate me as much as a drop of you.
You are my blue crayon, the one I never have enough of, the one I use to color my sky.
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.”
— Alfred Tennyson
— Alfred Tennyson
“Don’t forget I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.” – Notting Hill
Love is the product of how you respond … Love is showing your partner they’re safe, you’ll catch them if they fall, and you’ll drop everything if they need you. Love is unconditional. Love doesn’t keep score. Shane Parrish
“You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you.” — Jane Austen’s “Pride & Prejudice”
“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
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
“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
Inspiring Love Quotes For Her
“Maybe the only vow we ever need to offer the one we love is this: I will never, not for a sliver or a second, make you feel alone.” — Tyler Knott Gregson
“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.”
There is a madness in loving you, a lack of reason that makes it feel so flawless. — Leo Christopher
For once in my life, I don’t have to try to be happy. When I’m with you, it just happens.
I wanna be the reason behind your smile because surely you are the reason behind mine.
“So many reasons are there to love you. Your cute smile, your sweet laugh, your innocence and your kind heart makes me love you.”– Unknown
“I am in love with your smile, your voice, your body, your laugh, your eyes. But most of all, I am in love with you.”
Your Lips? I kiss that. Your body? I hug that. My smile? You cause that. Your heart? I want that.
“I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.” — Ben Folds, “The Luckiest”
“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.” — Unknown