Heartfelt Quotes About Love
1. “Love is a better teacher than duty.” — Albert Einstein
2. “Love in its essence is spiritual fire.” — Seneca
3. “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
4. “Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.” — Lao Tzu
5. “I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” — Rita Rudner
6. “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” — William Shakespeare
7. “If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.” — Benjamin Franklin
8. “A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.” — Honore de Balzac
9. “Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.” — Lynda Barry
10. “Love is an endless act of forgiveness.” — Beyoncé
11. “You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
12. “Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three-meals-a-day and remembering to carry out the trash.” — Joyce Brothers
13. “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller
14. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.” — Alfred Tennyson
15. “The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives? When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see in truth that you are weeping for that which has been your delight.” — Kahlil Gibran
16. “We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
17. “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
18. “Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’” — Erich Fromm
19. “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
20. “When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.” — Leo Tolstoy
21. “To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.” — Pablo Neruda
22. “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
23. “And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make.” — Paul McCartney
24. “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 which add quality and beauty to life.” – Andrew Matthews
25. “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” — Tom Bodett
26. “Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.” — Lord Byron
27. “If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.” — Miles Davis
28. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
29. “When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits – anything that kept me small. My judgment called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.” – Kim McMillen
30. “I love you no matter what you do, but do you have to do so much of it?” — Jean Illsley Clarke
31. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu
32. “Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky
33. “Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.” — Leo Buscaglia
34. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” — William Shakespeare
35. “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” — Oscar Wilde
