Here’s the best love quotes for you to feel love and inspiration
From Paulo Coelho to Brad Pitt, here are the best quotes about love from around the web.
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1 “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.” ― Jess C. Scott, The Intern
2 “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” ― Carl Gustav Jung
3 “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” ― Helen Keller
4 “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” ― Khalil Gibran
5 “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” ― Audrey Hepburn
6 “‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
7 “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ― Dr. Seuss
8 “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” ― Lao Tzu
9 “The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space” ― Marilyn Monroe
10 “We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
11 “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
12 “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
13 “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha
14 “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” — James Baldwin
15 “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” — Lucille Ball
16 “When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.” — Blaise Pascal
17 “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton
18 “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
19 “In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.” — Theodor Reik
20 “There’s no substitute for a great love who says, ‘No matter what’s wrong with you, you’re welcome at this table.’” — Tom Hanks
11 “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
12 “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
13 “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha
14 “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” — James Baldwin
15 “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” — Lucille Ball
16 “When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.” — Blaise Pascal
17 “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton
18 “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
19 “In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.” — Theodor Reik
20 “There’s no substitute for a great love who says, ‘No matter what’s wrong with you, you’re welcome at this table.’” — Tom Hanks
21 “Where there is love there is life.” — Mahatma Gandhi
22 “So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” — Pablo Coelho
23 “Do not urge me to leave you or turn back from you. Where you go, I will go. Where you stay, I will stay.” — Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin
24 “I would rather have you for a little time than no time at all. I will remember you perfectly. My memory will touch your skin, your lips. The memory will hurt, but it will be mine.” — The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski
25 “If we had our entire lives ahead of us I bet you’d get tired of me telling you how much I love you because I’m positive that’s the path we were heading on. But because we’re about to die, I want to say it as many times as I want—I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you.” — They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
26 “No matter what happens, I will never, not in a thousand tragic outcomes, ever regret loving you.” — Frost Like Night by Sara Raasch
27 “Gods don’t die, and yet, at times, when I’ve sat next to you I thought I’d die, this pain in my chest that I can hardly understand except it’s you, caught there.” — Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
28 “Maybe our Happily Ever After hadn’t worked on the first shot. And maybe Happily Ever Afters weren’t a singular event. Maybe they were something you had to work at, and build, and never give up on, as long as they were something you still wanted.” — Only Mostly Devastated by Sophie Gonzales
29 “We are light against the sky.” — Miss Meteor by Anna-Marie McLemore and Tehlor Kay Mejia
30 “Remember how I said the timing makes no sense? But you’re here. Like you’d finally shown up and I didn’t realize I was looking for you.” — Loveboat, Taipei by Abigail Hing Wen
31 “The way he’s looking at me is like I’m the only beating heart in the world.” — Places No One Knows by Brenna Yovanoff
32 “The thing is, you don’t forfeit your whole world to prove your feelings to someone. You bring your worlds together. You get more world, not less.” — Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds
33 “Even in its first faint traces, love could alter a landscape. It wrote unimagined stories and made the most beautiful, forbidding places.” — Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore
34 “I would teach my body to regrow my heart each time I gave it to him, over and over and over again. Heart after heart after heart—every one of them his.” — The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky by Mackenzi Lee
35 “It was the intimacy of shared secrets. The comfort of unconditional acceptance. It was a confidence in knowing no matter what happened that person would always be there for you.” — Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann
36 ”I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
37 “A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.” ― Brendan Francis
38 “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” ― Robert A. Heinlein
39 “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” ― Sarah Dessen
40 “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” ― C.S. Lewis
41 “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
42 “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” ― Marilyn Monroe
43 “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” ― Lao Tzu
44 ”I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert
45 “Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.” ― Madame de Stael
46 “Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.” ― Moliere
47 “We accept the love we think we deserve.” ― Stephen Chbosky
48 “To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.” ― Madonna
49 “I believe there are some things in life you can’t deny or rationalize, and [love] is one of them.” ― Cate Blanchett
50 “For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.” ― Carl Sagan
51 “You are the one girl that made me risk everything for a future worth having.” ― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry
52 “You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.” ― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
53 “You make me happier than I ever thought I could be and if you let me, I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you feel the same way.” ― Friends
54 “I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be…yours.” ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
55 “I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.” ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
56 “For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.” ― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
57 “Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.” ― André Breton, Mad Love
58 “The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.” ― Henry Miller
59 “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.” ― Donald Miller
60 “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” ― Carl Jung
61 “The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise, we love only the reflection of ourselves we find it them.” ― Thomas Merton
62 “My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It’s happened before, it will happen again, I’m sure. When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive. I’ll find love again.” ― Paulo Coelho
63 “She always thought she needed someone to love when all she really needed to do was love the world and let love find her in its time and in its way.” ― Kate McGahan
64 “There are two kinds of sparks, the one that goes off with a hitch like a match, but it burns quickly. The other is the kind that needs time, but when the flame strikes… it’s eternal, don’t forget that.” ― Timothy Oliveira
65 “Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what they really are.” ― Jim Morrison
66 “Life isn’t about having a thousand friends, it’s about finding the very few right ones you need.” ― A.R. Asher
67 “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” ― C.S. Lewis
68 “In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” ― Albert Schweitzer
69 “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” ― Marcel Proust
70 “Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” ― Franklin P. Jones
71 “We’re all a little weird, and life’s a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.” ― Robert Fulghum
72 “Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.” ― Joan Crawford
73 “To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.” ― Criss Jami
74 “True love stories never have endings.” ― Richard Bach
75 “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” ― Morrie Schwartz
76 “Love is a game that two can play and both can win.” ― Eva Gabor
77 “Love is a friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. Love is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.” ― Ann Landers
78 “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
79 “Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” ― Pablo Picasso
80 “Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we’re gone.” ― Cecelia Ahern
81 “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever.” ― Nicholas Sparks
82 “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda
83 “So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” ― Paulo Coelho
84 “In case you ever foolishly forget, I am never not thinking of you.” ― Virginia Woolf
85 “Regardless of what language it is said in, ‘I love you’ stays beautiful, and two hearts beating together make the same sound. It is the language of Love.”
― Christina Engela
86 “I love you not because of what you have, but because of who you are.” ― Debasish Mridha
87 “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” ― Mignon Mclaughlin
88 “The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.” ― William Lyon Phelps
89 “When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” ― When Harry Met Sally
90 “There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.” ― Martin Luther
91 “Happiness is only real when shared.” ― Jon Krakauer
92 “Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.” ― Diane Arbus
93 “Our true identity is to love without fear and insecurity. Our higher potential finds us when we set our course in that direction. The power of love and compassion transforms insecurity.” ― Doc Childre
94 “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart. ― Helen Keller
95 “The beautiful thing about love is that you just need to plant it once and nurture it and it shall bloom into blossoms that would cover the valleys.” ― Hermann J. Steinherr
96 “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
97 “We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” ― Sam Keen
98 “True love will triumph in the end; which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it’s the most beautiful lie we have.” ― John Green
99 “True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.” ― Alexandre Dumas
100 “Do you know how you tell real love? It’s when someone else’s interest trumps your own. I like to put it that way: trumps your own. Love of somebody else, of family, of your kids, becomes the most important, most worthwhile thing in your life. It’s what you foster and protect.” ― Brad Pitt