I want to share quotes of love for people who have walked this earth before us and from the few who are still here with us.
Timeless ideas and inspiring quotes have been written down over the decades and centuries.
The ideas are not only about happy romantic love quotes but also about love quotes between friends and family.
This is 38 of the most inspiring, thought-provoking, and informative quotes about private and public love.
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”— Lucille Ball
“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.”— Rainer Maria Rilke
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”— Morrie Schwartz
“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”— Lord Byron
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”— Herman Hesse
“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.”— Roy Croft
“Love is a friendship set to music.”— Joseph Campbell
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.”— Blaise Pascal
“Love in its essence is spiritual fire.”— Seneca
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”— Gilbert K. Chesterton
“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
“Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.”— Leo Buscaglia
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”— Maya Angelou
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”— George Sand
“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
“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.”— Lao Tzu
“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
“At a touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.”— Plato
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.”— Alfred Tennyson
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”— Marcus Aurelius
“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”— Oscar Wilde
“The only thing we never get enough of is love, and the only thing we never give enough of is love.”— Henry Miller
“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
“You, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”– Buddha
“You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”— Dr. Seuss
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”— Khalil Gibran
“'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”— Alfred Lord Tennyson
“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
“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”— Albert Ellis
“If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.”— Benjamin Franklin
“When you adopt the view that there is nothing that exists that is not part of you, that there is no one who exists who is not part of you, that any judgment you make is self-judgment, that any criticism you level is self-criticism, you will wisely extend to yourself an unconditional love that will be the light of the world.”– Harry Palmer
“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”— Euripides
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“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
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”— Martin Luther King, Jr.
“A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things that add quality and beauty to life.”– Andrew Matthews
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