In the midst of all the chaos in the world, love makes life worth living. It softens the hardest of hearts and brightens a dull day.
Whether it’s Valentines Day, your anniversary or you need some sweet, warm affirmations to brighten a dull day or help you believe in love again after a tough break-up, here is a perfect round-up of the best love quotes.
“I love you not only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you.” -Roy Croft
“Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.”- A.A. Milne
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you … I could walk through my garden forever.”- Alfred Tennyson
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.” – Plato
“You know its love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.”— Julia Roberts
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride.” – Pablo Neruda
“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.”— Lao Tzu
“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
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“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” – Sam Keen
“Love is tough. Love survives through the worst of situations and thrives through hope. Even when things seem hopeless love will find its way.” – Malika E. Nura
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” – James Baldwin
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love!” – Sophocles
“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it, but you can feel it” – Nicholas Sparks
“Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.” – Lamartine
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.” – Blaise Pascal
”Sometimes I think I need a spare heart to feel all the things I feel.” – Sanober Khan
“Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.” — Bob Marley
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” — William Shakespeare
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“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.” — Madonna
“If you just believe in me, I will love you endlessly.” — Mariah Carey
“When someone else’s happiness is your happiness. That is love.” — Lana del Ray
“Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.” — A. J. Jacobs
“Quite simply it is love. It is the unconditional love that says, regardless of what you do or where you go, I will always be there for you.” — Elijah Wood
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.” — Paulo Coelho
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou
“Intense love does not measure, it just gives.” — Mother Teresa
“Don’t do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul.” — Henry Rollins
“Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.” — Soren Kierkegaard
“Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.” — Leo Buscaglia
“Love? What is love? Love is to love someone for who they are, who they were, and who they will be.” — Chris Moore
“Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.” – Mary Oliver
“To give and not expect a return, that is what lies at the heart of love.” — Oscar Wilde
“When we love there is no reason why.” — Vanna Bonta
“Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.” — Ralph Connor
“Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton
“I have found the paradox that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” — Mother Teresa
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“Love means never having to say you’re sorry. “– Ali MacGraw
“The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your action will be.” – Dalai Lama XIV
“Love is something eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence.” – Vincent Van Gogh
“To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you are the world.” – Bill Wilson
I love you, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Love is a friendship set to music.”— Joseph Campbell
“You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I’ve ever had.” – Nicolas Sparks
“When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.”— Blaise Pascal
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse
“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller
“You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss
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“To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.” – Valerie Lombardo
“My love for you is past the mind, beyond my heart, and into my soul.” – Kodjoe
“I will never be perfect for you, but I will always imperfectly try to be.” – Atticus
“Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.” – Elbert Hubbard
“Love understands love; it needs no talk.” – Francis Havergal
“Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.” – Henry David Thoreau
“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
“Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.” – Felix Adler
“I know of no greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, without end.” – Franz Kafka
“Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age.” – Jeanne Moreau
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” – Victor Hugo
“Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.” – Gary Zukav
“The minute I heard my first love story – I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere – they’re in each other all along.” – Rumi
“To love unconditionally requires no contracts, bargains, or agreements. Love exists in the moment-to-moment flux of life.” – Marion Woodman
“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.” – Hobbes
“If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.” – Anais Nin
“Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn’t sentimental. It doesn’t have to be pretty, yet it doesn’t deny pain.” – Sharon Salzberg
“That Love is all there is, is all we know of Love.” – Emily Dickinson
“There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.” – Lorraine Hansberry
“Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.” – Barbara De Angelis
“Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.” – Ben Hecht
“Love is my religion — I could die for that — I could die for you. My creed is love and you are its only tenet.” – John Keats
“I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
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“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
“There is a madness in loving you, a lack of reason that makes it feel so flawless.” – Leo Christopher
“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
“Do you love me because I’m beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?” – Oscar Hammerstein, II
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” – Morrie Schwartz
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”- Oscar Wilde
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” – Khalil Gibran
“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.” – Max Muller
“It was the way you laughed, I knew I wanted that in my life.” – R. M. Drake
“I love you right up to the moon—and back.” – Sam McBratney
“If I had to dream up the perfect woman, she wouldn’t even come close to you.” – Boy Meets World
“To love is to burn, to be on fire.” – Jane Austen
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“True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach
“Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.” – Moliere
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” – Washington Irving
“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” – Barbara De Angelis
“You call it madness, but I call it love.” – Don Byas
“Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.” – Augustine of Hippo
“We love because it’s the only true adventure.” – Nikki Giovanni
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” – Henry David Thoreau
“All you need is love.” – Paul McCartney
“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” – Pablo Picasso
“Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones
“Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person.” – James Thurber
“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
“Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.” – Elaine Davis.
