213 Best Love Inspirational Quotes
Love is one of the most powerful emotions that humans experience, and it can be a source of great inspiration and motivation. Whether we’re in a new relationship, struggling to keep the flame alive in a long-term partnership, or seeking to heal from heartbreak, love can push us to be our best selves. In this article, we will explore the best love inspirational quotes of all time. These quotes will remind us of the beauty and power of love, and help us to tap into our own feelings of love and compassion for ourselves and others.

- I may not say much when I am with you, but all of me loves you all the time. Richard Nixon , love letter to his wife
- “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” – John Green
- “We accept the love we think we deserve.” – Stephen Chbosky
- “Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.” – Elaine Davis
- “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 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
- “Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.” – St. Augustine
- “I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- There is no remedy for love but to love more. Thoreau
- “The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence.” – Dalai Lama
- “The real lover is a man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.” – Marilyn Monroe
- “Where there is love there is life.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” – Maya Angelou
- “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” – Charles Dickens
- “I’ll be loving you, always with a love that’s true” – Patsy Cline
- “To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.” – Madonna
- “I need you like a heart needs a beat.” – One Republic
- “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
- “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
- “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse
- “The chance to love and be loved exists no matter where you are.” – Oprah Winfrey
- ”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
- “I believe there are some things in life you can’t deny or rationalise, and [love] is one of them.” – Cate Blanchett
- “I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.” – Leo Christopher
- “For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.” – Carl Sagan
- “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
- “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” – Jesus Christ
- “A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.” – Brendan Francis
- Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. Oliver Wendell Holmes
- ”I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.” – Pablo Neruda
- In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. Janos Arany
- ”Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.” – Oscar Wilde
- You’re nothing short of my everything. Ralph Block
- “You make me want to be a better man.” – Melvin Udall
- Love is friendship set on fire. Jeremy Taylor
- “Take my hand, take my whole life too. For I can’t help falling in love with you.” – Elvis Presley
- Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. Paulo Coelho
- Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.” – Robert Browning
- Love others the way that God has loved you, with tenderness. Mother Teresa
- “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” – Sarah Dessen
- Love is the cause and result of energy. Greg Henry Quinn
- “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert A. Heinlein
- Love is defined as that wish that seeks that others enjoy happiness. Dalai Lama
- “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” – Anais Nin
- Love evolves just as people do. Kate Holmily, How to Save Your Marriage When Trust Is Broken
- “He is not a lover who does not love forever.” – Euripides
- Mature love is energising; immature love is exhausting. Sol Gordon, Why Love is Not Enough
- “To love is to burn, to be on fire.” – Jane Austen
- Love is happiness, Love is life. Thomas Henry Burrowes, The Pennsylvania School Journal
- “Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is growing up.” – James Baldwin
- Love is quivering happiness. Kahlil Gibran
- “In the end we discover that to love and let go can be the same thing.” – Jack Kornfield
- To understand your parents’ love, you must raise children yourself. Chinese Proverb
- “Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.” – Bette Davis
- “The truth is – worry deadens love.” Sue Whitaker
- “Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” – Pablo Neruda
- Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time. Maya Angelou
- “Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.” – Ovid
- Love is an energy that is shared because we have it. Anne Wilson Schaef
- “Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.” – Theodore Roethke
- “A heart that loves is always young.” Greek Proverb
- “Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” – Nicholas Sparks
- “Love is the only thing you get more of by giving it away.” Tom Wilson
- “Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.” – Ben Hecht
- “Love is caring, sharing and encouraging another.” Catherine Pulsifer
- “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
- “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” Helen Keller
- “I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
- “To be a father requires patience, love and giving up the ‘all about me’ attitude.” Catherine Pulsifer
- “To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.” – Valerie Lombardo
- In showing love to someone else, your own complaints will lessen. David Jeremiah
- ”My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.” – André Breton
- “To love is to risk not being loved in return.” William Arthur Ward
- ”The purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” – Kurt Vonnegut
- “By choosing to forgive, you are choosing to love.” Eric Watterson, I Forgive You
- ”Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.” – Elinor Glyn
- Kindness is just love with its work boots on. Victoria Moran, Fat, Broke and Lonely No More
- Take my hand, take my whole life too, but I can’t help falling in love with you. Elvis Presley
- ”Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or
- “A house becomes a home when you can write, ‘I love you’ on the furniture.” Author Unknown, Dust If You Mus
- “Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person.” – James Thurber
- When we withhold love from ourselves, we ruin and deplete ourselves. Laura van den Berg Sekac, Get Unstuck Now
- “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.” – Sophocles
- Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. Proverb
- “So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” – Paulo Coelho“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” – Andre Gide
- Write someone you love a note saying so. Cindy Francis
- “This has been my life; I found it worth living.” – Bertrand Russell
- You can only have as much love for yourself as you can express to others.” Brian Tracy
- “We must be our own before we can be another’s.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Loving others brings love back to you.” Catherine Pulsifer
- “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” – Confucius
- “Thank you for making room in your life for me.” Paul Liebau
- “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” – Rumi
- “To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of the person loved.” Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz
- “Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you.” – Tom Freston
- I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. Judy Garland
- “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
- Where there is great love, there are always miracles. Willa Cather
- “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there’s love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” – Ella Fitzgerald
- Poetic you become when in love you are. Yoda
- “Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.” – Henry David Thoreau
- Love is bigger than a tsunami, stronger than any fear. Bethany Hamilton
- “Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.” – Judy Collins
- Love is spelt T-I-M-E. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
- “You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha
- “Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.” George Carlin, from How To Stay Young
- “Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.” – William Shakespeare
- “We first must love ourselves in order to be able to truly love anyone or anything.” D Lafrinere
- “I have decided to stick to love; hate is too great a burden to bear.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Love is the spiritual magnetism that draws men together, for the working of miracles.” Wilferd A. Peterson
- “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.” – Natalie Cole
- Love is what makes us enjoy things around us. Elijah Mcleon, New Light, New Life, New You!
- “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” – William Shakespeare
- Perfect love sometimes does not come till the first grandchild.” Welsh Proverb
- “You call it madness, but I call it love.” – Don Byas
- “The more you love yourself, the better you perform.” M. K. Soni
- “We can only learn to love by loving.” – Iris Murdoch
- While love gets lost, a deep sorrow blends us and we get lonesome in the heart. Yousuf
- “A life lived in love will never be dull.” – Leo Buscaglia
- Love that is washed by tears will remain eternally pure and faithful. Kahlil Gibran
- “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” – Victor Hugo
- Love never claims, it ever gives. Mohandas K. Gandhi
- “All you need is love.” – Paul McCartney
- Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. Elinor Glyn
- “True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach
- Love does not dominate; it cultivates. Goethe
- “Love is shown more in deeds than in words.” – Saint Ignatius
- Love is not what the mind thinks, but what the heart feels. Greg Evans
- “Love is not a volunteer thing.” – Samuel Richardson
- You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. Barbara de Angelis
- “Love is friendship on fire.” – Susan Sontag
- It is love alone that gives worth to all things. Teresa of Avila
- “Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.” – Tom Wolfe
- To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. Karen Sunde
- “Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones
- Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world. Orhan Pamuk, Snow
- “The love we give away is the only love we keep.” – Elbert Hubbard
- You can give without loving, but you can’t love without giving. Amy Carmichael
- “Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.” – Houssaye
- If I know what love is, it is because of you. Herman Hesse
- “Trust your intuition and be guided by love.” – Charles Eisenstein
- True love stories never have endings. Richard Bach
- “That’s all nonviolence is – organised love.” – Joan Baez
- Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. Franklin P. Jones
- “We love it because it’s the only true adventure.” – Nikki Giovanni
- Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will. Elaine Davis
- “My soul and your soul are forever tangled.” – N.R. Hart
- Heaven grants us patience with a man in love. Rudyard Kipling
- “You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s heaven on earth.” – William W. Purkey
- People need love. It’s the most powerful emotion in the world. Michael Jackson
- “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- We must not confuse the command to love with the disease to please. Lysa TerKeurst, The Best Yes
- “Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age.” – Jeanne Moreau
- like a backache: it doesn’t show up on X-rays, but you know it’s there. George Burns
- “Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” – Washington Irving
- All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt. Charles M. Schulz
- “Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.” – Marge Piercy
- Grow old with me, the best is yet to come. Robert Browning
- “You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” – Barbara De Angelis
- Love is a two-way street constantly under construction. Carroll Bryant
- “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
- Love is blind but marriage is a real eye-opener Pauline Thomason
- “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
- A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears Les Dawson
- “Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.” – George Jean Nathan
- “Love will wrap each moment warm around it And wear a gentle smile upon its face.” John McLeod, Love Is Ever
- “Love is more than a noun – it is a verb; it is more than a feeling – it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing.” – William Arthur Ward
- Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness. C. S. Lewis
- “Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.” – Barbara De Angelis
- “We need not think alike to love alike.” – Francis David
- Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. Jules Renard
- “Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.” – Moliere
- “Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.” Japanese Proverb
- “Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each includes the other, each is enriched by the other.” – Felix Adler
- Love is benevolent and harmonious – a haven of peace. Simon May, Love: A History
- “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Don’t marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Scottish Proverb
- “Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love.” – Lao Tzu
- You can’t blame gravity for falling in love. Albert Einstein
- “Love is sharing your popcorn.” – Charles Schultz
- When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again. Albert Einstein
- “Love is being stupid together.” – Paul Valery
- Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it. Swedish Proverb
- “If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?” – Lily Tomlin
- True love begins when nothing is looked for in return. Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” – Albert Einstein
- In true love, you attain freedom. Thich Nhat Hanh
- “Love is like pi – natural, irrational, and very important.” – Lisa Hoffman
- Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary. Oscar Wilde
- “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.” – Robert Fulghum
- Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart. Kay Knudsen
- “Love is something sent from heaven to worry the hell out of you.” – Dolly Parton
- ”There is always some madness in love. But there is always some reason for madness.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Hallmarks of true love . . . A willingness to give and take.” Newell W. Edson
- “Love means having to say you’re sorry every fifteen minutes.” – John Lennon
- I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world. Charles Dickens
- “A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” – Ingrid Bergman
- “Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.” – Ambrose Bierce
- “You changed my world at a time when I thought my world was stable. A change that had a happy ending.” C Butman
- “What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.” – Pearl Bailey
- “When you find true love you will know it as it will be like any other.” Catherine Pulsifer
- “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” – Albert Einstein
- True love stories never have endings. Richard Bach
- “Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.” – Thomas Dewar
- True love is thinking more of the other person and less of yourself. Catherine Pulsifer
- “Love is a lot like a backache, it doesn’t show up on X-rays, but you know it’s there.” – George Burns
- Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. Peter Ustinov
- “I love you more than coffee, but please don’t make me prove it.” – Elizabeth Evans
- May your love grow and bring you peace and joy on life’s path . Eve Eschner Hogan, How to Love Your Marriage
- Love gives hope, and faith makes love and hope possible. Tara Shah, Love Faith Death
- Love is to love someone for who they are, who they were, and who they will be. Chris Moore
CONCLUSION
In conclusion, the best love inspirational quotes capture the essence of the most powerful emotion that humans experience. These quotes remind us of the importance of love in our lives, and encourage us to cherish and nurture the relationships that matter to us. Whether we’re falling in love for the first time, navigating the ups and downs of a long-term relationship, or trying to heal from heartbreak, the right quote can provide us with the inspiration and guidance we need to keep going. By reflecting on these timeless words of wisdom, we can tap into the power of love to transform our lives and the world around us.