300+ of the Best Love Quotes to Say I Love You

Best Love Quotes to Say I Love You

Quotes About Loving Someone

How do you tell someone you love them? With a gift, with a song, or what about with a love quote. There are times when you want to express to someone you love how much they mean to you but are at a loss for words. This is when borrowing love quotes from the best poets or songwriters comes in handy. I’ve found myself searching for the best love quotes time and time again, be it for a wedding anniversary, Valentine’s Day, or other special occasions. I also use these love quotes for those occasions and moments where I just want to tell them I love them with a simple text message.

The following love quotes are broken into different categories; Love Quotes for Him and Her, I Love You Quotes, Self Love Quotes, and True Love Quotes. Just scroll down and find the perfect one for you.

If you’re often looking for quotes or use quotes for your Instagram captions or greeting cards make sure to also check out these cute quotes, beach quotes, fashion quotes, and summer quotes. I’m sure you’ll find the perfect saying on one of these quotes resources.

The first photo in this love quote post is from our wedding in Paris! It’s one of my absolute favorite photos from our dream wedding so I only found it fitting to use it for this quotes post!

The flower pool photo below before the I Love You Quotes section is from our time in Bali! We filled the pool with flowers to capture that amazing honeymoon photo!

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Love Quotes for Him and Her

Do you have something special planned for your significant other and you need the perfect love quote to tell him how much you love him? I’ve included a variety of love quotes to cover all your bases. Use those quotes to write in a card or to say to him when they are opening their present.

Read through the love quotes and pick that one that best expresses how you feel. Make sure to select a love quote that is a representation of yourself and you can say with no problem. That is really the best thing! You don’t want any quote that you say sound forced or ungenuine.


What is the meaning of love, is the existence of a special person, or a nostalgia person, or the presence of honest feelings, I think that love is the relationship begin with the world, a glance, a smile, and it has no end.

On the off chance that I comprehend what love is, it is a direct result of you.

Keep in mind I’m only a young lady, remaining before a kid, requesting that he loves her.

I pick you. What’s more, I’ll pick you again and again and over. Immediately, undoubtedly, instant. I’ll continue picking you.

It is not an absence of love, but rather an absence of fellowship that makes troubled relational unions.

When you understand you need to spend whatever remains of your existence with some individual, you need whatever remains of your life to begin as quickly as time permits.

I understood I was considering you, and I started to think about to what extent you’d been at the forefront of my thoughts. At that point it jumped out at me: Since I met you, you’ve never cleared out.

Delight of love keeps going, however, a minute. The torment of love endures forever.

Being profoundly loved by somebody gives you quality while cherishing somebody profoundly gives you fearlessness.

If I could be anything in the world I would want to be a teardrop because I would be born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips.

You are the source of my joy, the center of my world and the whole of my heart.

Love is not about how many days, weeks or months you’ve been together, it’s all about how much you love each other every day.

You are my paradise and I would happily get stranded on you for a lifetime.

I don’t need paradise because I found you. I don’t need dreams because I already have you.

I need you like a heart needs a beat.

You may hold my hand for a while, but you hold my heart forever.

This is from my heart, to thank you for everything you have done for me, for all the times I forgot to tell you how I feel about you and how happy I am that you are in my life.

True love is knowing a person’s faults, and loving them even more for them.

Imagining a life without you is something that is impossible, you make me complete and I want you to know you mean everything to me.

My love for you is a journey starting at forever and ending at never.

Ever since the day you came in my life, I know that you are the one I’ll truly love till the end.

If a hug represented how much I loved you, I would hold you in my arms forever.

Being in love with you makes every morning worth getting up for.

This is a thank you for every hour we have spent together, for every kiss, for every embrace and for every tear shed for one another.

“Come live in my heart and pay no rent.”- Samuel Lover

I’d spend the entire day in your arms if I could. The times shared with you are the most precious moments of my life.

You are my perfect soul mate who brings the very best out of me.

You won my heart when you glanced at me and you swept me off my feet with just one kiss. Kissing you is like getting your signature, as I am your biggest fan.

Your silliness makes me laugh and your happiness keeps me smiling. You are the man of my dreams.

When I think of you, I see your name with hearts floating in front of my eyes.

“Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”- Franklin P. Jones

I love how you make me laugh. I love how you love me back. I love everything about you.

I got lost in him and it was the kind of lost that’s exactly like being found.

I need you because you make me laugh more than anyone else and I’m the best me when I’m with you. And when you’re gone, nothing feels right until you return.

“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.” -Noah from The Notebook

“I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the1 ages of this world alone.“- J.R.R. Tolkien

“I look at you and see the rest of my life in front of my eyes.”

“I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.“ -Leo Christopher

“Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive.“-Inconnu

“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.”

“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

“I’m much more me when I’m with you.”

“I wish I could turn back the clock. I’d find you sooner and love you longer.”

“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

“I realized I was thinking of you, and I began to wonder how long you’d been on my mind. Then it occurred to me: Since I met you, you’ve never left.“
“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

“I want you. All of you. Your flaws. Your mistakes. Your imperfections. I want you, and only you.“ -John Legend

“Because I could watch you for a single minute and find a thousand things that I love about you.”

“There is a madness in loving you, a lack of reason that makes it feel so flawless.” -Leo Christopher

“I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.” -John Green

“There isn’t one person in the world that I want more than I want you.”

“Love is too weak a word for what I feel. I luuurve you, you know, I loave you, I luff you, two F’s, yes I have to invent, of course I do,
don’t you think I do?” -Woody Allen

“The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.” -George Moore

“Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.“ -Elaine Davis

“Whenever I’m alone with you, you make me feel like I am home again. Whenever I’m alone with you, you make me feel like I am whole again“ -The Cure

“Ask me to define my love for you and I’ll say it’s captured in every beautiful memory of our past, detailed out in vivid visions of our dreams and future plans, but most of all it’s right now, in the moment where everything I’ve ever wanted in my life is standing right in front of me.“ -Leo Christopher

“You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.“ -Dr. Seuss

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.” -Alfred Tennyson

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.“ -Ingrid Bergman

“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.” -Lao Tzu

“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.“ -Helen Keller

“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.“ -Harry Burns

“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.“ -Sophocles

“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.“ -Natalie Cole

“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.“ -Khalil Gibran

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

“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.“ -Jodi Picoult

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.“ -Victor Hugo

“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.“ -Andre Breton

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.“ -Lao Tzu

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” -Oscar Wilde

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.“ -Morrie Schwartz

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.“ -Gilbert K. Chesterton

Every person has to love at least one bad partner in their lives to be truly thankful for the right one.

“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.” -Albert Ellis

“When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.” -Blaise Pascal

“You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.“ -Albert Einstein

“The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.” -Henry Miller

“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

“Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.“ -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.“ -Charles Schulz

“When love is not madness it is not love.“ -Pedro Calderón de la Barca

“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.“ -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“I have decided to stick to love; hate is too great a burden to bear.“ -Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The giving of love is an education in itself.“ -Eleanor Roosevelt

“We are most alive when we’re in love.“ -John Updike

“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.“ -Wayne Dyer

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.“ -David Viscott

“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” -James Baldwin

“The heart wants what it wants. There’s no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that’s that.“ -Woody Allen

“All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love.“ -Leo Tolstoy


The Best I Love You Quotes

I Love You Quotes

Looking for something a little more than a simple I Love You? Then these “expended” I love you quotes are it! The love quotes below all have the phrase “I Love You” but it’s expanded to include something before or after. From romantic to funny, there is a quote below that will serve your needs.


“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.” -Erich Fromm

“I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.”- John Keats

“Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not ‘I love you’ for this or that reason, not ‘I love you if you love me.’ It’s love for no reason, love without an object.”- Ram Dass

“Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.”- Thomas Aquinas

“We should remember that saying ‘I love you’ is only a beginning. We need to say it, we need to mean it, and most importantly we need consistently to show it. We need to both express and demonstrate love.”- David A. Bednar

“You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love… I love… I love you.“ -Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice

I love you not because of anything you have, but because of something that I feel when I’m near you.

When I tell you I love you, I am not saying it out of habit, I am reminding you that you are my life.

“I hope you know that every time I tell you to get home safe, stay warm, have a good day, or sleep well what I am really saying is I love you.

I love you so damn much that it is starting to steal other words’ meanings.”

“I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there’s a life after that, I’ll love you then.” -Cassandra Clare

“I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.” -Roy Croft

“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.”

“When I saw you, I was afraid to meet you. When I met you I was afraid to kiss you. When I kissed you, I was afraid to love you. Now that I love you, I am afraid to lose you.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way.” -Pablo Neruda

I love you and I don’t want to lose you. Because my life has been better since the day I found out.

“You are my best friend, my human diary and my other half. You mean the world to me and I love you.“

“For you see, each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.” -Rosemonde Gerard

“But I love you I’m totally and completely in love with you and I don’t care if you think it’s too late. I’m telling you anyway.” -Natalie Portman

“I love you. I am at rest with you. I have come home.” -Dorothy L. Sayers

“He doesn’t love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.” -George Emerson

“A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you.” -Henry Wadsworth

“I love you, with no beginning, no end. I love you as you have become an extra necessary organ in my body. I love you as only a girl could love a boy. Without fear. Without expectations. Wanting nothing in return, except that you allow me to keep you here in my heart, that I may always know your strength, your eyes, and your spirit that gave me freedom and let me fly.“ -Coco J. Ginger

“I love you like a fat kid loves cake.“ -Scott Adams

“I’ve never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you’re not seeing an end to things.“ -Leighton Meester


Self Love Quotes

It’s said that before you truly love anyone else you need to truly love yourself first. I don’t know how true that saying is but it does make sense. One of the most important people you need to love if you! This section is self love quotes. Many times we put ourselves last on the list. Kids, husband, wife, friends, work, at times all, comes before you!

Read the following love quotes to remember that you are important and you do need to love yourself too!

“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.”- Pele

“Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.”- Bradley Whitford

“Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.”- Jenn Proske

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.”- Steve Jobs

“Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I’m tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become.”- Johnny Weir

“I want to tell women that you need to love yourself and make yourself a priority. It’s only when you are happy yourself, can you make everyone else around you happy. I am still a dreamer and still believe in fairy tales, but there is only that much one should give another person. You need to keep something for yourself.”- Bipasha Basu

“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”- Bruce Lee

“Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that’s when you’re most beautiful.”- Zoe Kravitz

“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.”- Thomas Merton

“Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don’t love what you’re doing and you can’t give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You’ll be an old man before you know it.”- Al Lopez

“Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‘I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.’ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.”- Joel Osteen

“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”- Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”- Rumi

“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” Buddha


True Love Quotes

Oh, what is more divine than true love! These love quotes are all about true love!


“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.”- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.”- Torquato Tasso

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”- Jean de La Fontaine

“True love doesn’t happen right away; it’s an ever-growing process. It develops after you’ve gone through many ups and downs, when you’ve suffered together, cried together, laughed together.”- Ricardo Montalban

“True love stories never have endings.”- Richard Bach

“True love doesn’t happen right away; it’s an ever-growing process. It develops after you’ve gone through many ups and downs, when you’ve suffered together, cried together, laughed together.”- Ricardo Montalban

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”- Jean de La Fontaine

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”- William Shakespeare

“Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That’s why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.”- Mortimer Adler

“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.”- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”- Euripides

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”- Lao Tzu

“For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.”- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.”- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you.”- Tom Freston

“Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.”- Wislawa Szymborska

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”- William Shakespeare

“I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.”- William Blake


“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”- Erich Segal

“True love bears all, endures all and triumphs!”- Dada Vaswani

“It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing.”- Bruce Forsyth

“True love lasts forever.”- Joseph B. Wirthlin

“Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.”- Kate Forsyth

“You don’t have to dumb down – you just have to find a clever, good, secure man. I’ve found a couple – I’ve been lucky – but it’s probably hard for everybody to find that true love of a good man.”- Kimora Lee Simmons

“True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.”- Torquato Tasso

“If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours; if they don’t they never were.”- Richard Bach

“Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.”- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Life is a game and true love is a trophy.”= Rufus Wainwright

“Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it’s a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.”- Gwendoline Christie

“True love stories never have endings.”- Richard Bach

“I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.”- Lana Del Rey

“True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.”- Ellen G. White

“True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.”- Sadhu Vaswani

“Love is pure and true; love knows no gender.”- Tori Spelling

“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

“True love doesn’t come to you it has to be inside you.”- Julia Roberts

“Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are pleasurable to read. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and fears.”- Kate Forsyth

“If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.”- Katherine Mansfield

“Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.”- Billy Graham

“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man – that is, the more divine – the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.”- Miguel de Unamuno

“True love, to me, is when she’s the first thought that goes through your head when you wake up and the last thought that goes through your head before you go to sleep.”- Justin Timberlake

“It can only be true love when you enable your other half to be better, to be the person they’re destined to be.”- Michelle Yeoh

“The thing is that love gives us a ringside seat on somebody else’s flaws, so of course you’re gonna spot some things that kinda need to be mentioned. But often the romantic view is to say, ‘If you loved me, you wouldn’t criticise me.’ Actually, true love is often about trying to teach someone how to be the best version of themselves.”- Alain de Botton

“The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.”- Israel Zangwill

“None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can’t teach people that – they have to learn by experience.”- Dorothy L. Sayers

“True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.”- Bryant H. McGill

“Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.”- Rod Stewart

“Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.”- Marshall McLuhan

“To good and true love fear is forever affixed.”- Francois Rabelais

“True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.”- Stendhal

“True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey.”- Holliday Grainger

“True love brings up everything – you’re allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.”- Jennifer Aniston

“True love does not only encompass the things that make you feel good, it also holds you to a standard of accountability.”- Monica Johnson

If someone truly loves you, they won’t tell you love stories, they will make a love story with you.

True love is not the number of kisses, or how often you get them, true love is the feeling that still lingers long after the kiss is over.
True love is like a pair of socks you gotta have two and they’ve gotta match.

“True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.” ― Kiera Cass

“True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.” ― William Goldman

“Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.” ― Nicholas Sparks

“True love is felonious, you take someone’s breath awa, you rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.” ― Jodi Picoult

“Love is not a maybe thing, you know when you love someone.”― Lauren Conrad

“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

“If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh

“I think you can only be truly mad at someone you really love.” ― E.L. James, Fifty Shades Freed

“True love doesn’t need proof. The eyes told what heartfelt.” ― Toba Beta

“True love is supposed to make you into a better person-uplift you.” ― Emily Giffin


Quotes About Life and Love

Thes rest of the love quotes in this resource are getting collected here, under quotes about love and life. Here you’ll find quotes that help you reflect in your life and really determine if you are putting love first.


“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”- George Sand

“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is 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 the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.”- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”- Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”- Bertrand Russell

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”- Oscar Wilde

“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.”- Hubert H. Humphrey

“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”- Mother Teresa

“The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.”- Audrey Hepburn

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”- William Shakespeare

“The most important thing in the world is family and love.”- John Wooden

“Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.”- Oscar Wilde

“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.”- Orson Welles

“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”- Martin Luther King, Jr.

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”- Mignon McLaughlin

“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.”- Leonardo da Vinci

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”- Maya Angelou

“The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.”- Brian Tracy

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”- Friedrich Nietzsche

“Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.”- Satchel Paige

“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

“If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?”- Khalil Gibran

“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.”- Mother Teresa

“You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you’re in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don’t fall in love with people because they’re fun. It just happens.”- Kirsten Dunst

“You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.”- Albert Einstein

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”- Robert Fulghum

“If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.”- Maya Angelou

“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.”- Josh Billings

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”- Mother Teresa

“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If music be the food of love, play on.”- William Shakespeare

“It is my goal to love everyone. I hate no one. Regardless of their race, religion, their proclivities, the desire of their heart and how they want to live their life and the decisions that they make. I can even respect people’s decisions and lifestyle choices just as I hope they have the courtesy to respect my decisions and my choices.”- Kirk Cameron

“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.”- Arthur Rubinstein

“Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.”- William Shakespeare

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”- Friedrich Nietzsche

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”- Dalai Lama

“In finding love, I think it’s important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it’s important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.”- Kina Grannis

“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”- Lao Tzu

“There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.”- Bryant H. McGill

“But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”- Khalil Gibran

“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.”- Voltaire

“Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.”- Don Miguel Ruiz

“Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.”- Desmond Tutu

“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.”- Marcus Aurelius

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”- Jimi Hendrix

“Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.”- Kinky Friedman

“If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.”- John Lennon

“As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.”- William Shakespeare

“Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.”- Taylor Swift

“Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.”- Boris Pasternak

“The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.”- W. Somerset Maugham

“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”- Charles Dickens

“The giving of love is an education in itself.”- Eleanor Roosevelt

“There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from our being different and always in need of the forgiveness, encouragement and that missing half of ourselves that we are searching for, as the Greek myth tells us, in order to complete ourselves.”- Eugene Kennedy

“Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.”- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.”- Princess Diana

“I must learn to love the fool in me – the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.”- Theodore Isaac Rubin

“Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”- Carl Jung

“I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.”- Julius Caesar

“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.”- George Bernard Shaw

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.”- Khalil Gibran

“Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.”- Katharine Lee Bate

“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.”- Elie Wiesel

“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.”- Saint Augustine

“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

“They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.”- Bil Keane

“The things that we love tell us what we are.”- Thomas Aquinas

“Faith makes all things possible… love makes all things easy.”- Dwight L. Moody

“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.”- Max Muller

“Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.”- Thomas Carlyle

“Though lovers be lost love shall not.”- Dylan Thomas

“If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.”- Princess Diana

“There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.”- Dave Grohl

“Being in love is the only transcendent experience.”- Armistead Maupin

“The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.”- Amelia Earhart

“Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.”- Corita Kent

“A flower doesn’t love you or hate you, it just exists.”- Mike White

“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”- Lord Byron

“Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.”- Mignon McLaughlin

“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”- Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The best proof of love is trust.”- Joyce Brothers

“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

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”- Edgar Allan Poe

“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.”- Maya Angelou

“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.”- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.”- Boethius

“Love is always being given where it is not required.”- E. M. Forster

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”- Paulo Coelho

“People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.”- Chuck Palahniuk

“Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.”- Tablo

“Love dies only when growth stops.”- Pearl S. Buck

“Love is metaphysical gravity.”- R. Buckminster Fuller

“Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.”- Ovid

“Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.”- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”- Karl A. Menninger

“Love without conversation is impossible.”- Mortimer Adler

“Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.”- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

“Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.”- Robert Herrick


There you have it! I hope these love quotes have lit a fire in your heart and have inspired you to let that special person in your life know how much you love them! There are plenty of love quotes here to help you do just that!

Let me know how you let your loved one know how much you love them! Peter and I work constantly to show each other how much we care from little thoughtful gifts to grand gestures of romance, we keep our love alive!

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Stay Stylish,
-V