Love is said to be the most powerful force in life, it is a powerful bond. Some people find it difficult to express love or even accept love, but when you do, it can be quite a bliss. With love comes joy, peace, pain, hope.
I hope these beautiful quotes inspire you to embrace love and teach to be open to love.
Inspiring Love Quotes
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”— James Baldwin
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”— Lucille Ball
“’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
“If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.”— Benjamin Franklin
“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
“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”— Albert Ellis
“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 in with living and loving. You don’t have forever.”— Leo Buscaglia
“At the 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
“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
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”— Oscar Wilde
“Love in its essence is spiritual fire.”— Seneca
“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
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”— Charles Schulz
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”— Gilbert K. Chesterton
“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 yourself, 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
“When you adopt the viewpoint 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
“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
“Love is a friendship set to music.”— Joseph Campbell
