Whether you are with someone or on your own, reading quotes about love and relationships can really help you to gain some more wisdom about the topic.
Relationships can come and go, or you may be in a long-term relationship; either way, inspirational quotes about love can help you to view love in a different way, especially if you are trying to attract more love into your life by using the Law of Attraction.
If you are, for example, looking for love, the following quotes could help you reaffirm ideas of being in love. You could write these quotes about love down on your vision board or add them to a quote journal. In this way, align yourself with the vibration of love today with these love quotes!
Alternatively, you could share these quotes about love with your partner to pass on these positive, loving vibrations. These messages of love could help you to express your own love and feelings for your partner.
In addition, if you are not in a romantic relationship and are not looking for one, these quotes can be applied to family love or friendships. Alongside these quotes about love, remember that self-love is also vital alongside relationships you have with other people. Do not neglect yourself in pursuit of a romantic relationship! Apply the same love you can have for others for yourself and vice versa.
I am going to share with you 100 inspirational quotes about love and relationships from some very wise, influential people. These quotes have been broken down into smaller categories but all are my favorite quotes about love and relate back to the core positivity that love is about!
1. “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”
– Donald Miller
2. “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
– Carl Jung
3. “Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
– Rumi
4. “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
5. “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.”
6. “We cannot decide to love. We cannot compel anyone to love us. There's no secret recipe, only love itself. And we are at its mercy; there's nothing we can do.”
– Nina George
7. “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
8. “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
9. “One day, someone will walk into your life and make you see why it never worked out with anyone else.”
– Anonymous
10. “When it’s time for souls to meet, there’s nothing on earth that can prevent them from meeting, no matter where each may be located. When two hearts are meant for each other, no distance is too far, no time is too long, and no other love can break them apart.”
– Jaime Lichauco
11. “A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”
– C.S. Lewis
12. “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
13. “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”
– David Tyson Gentry
14. “Life isn't about having a thousand friends, it's about finding the very few right ones you need.”
– A.R. Asher
15. “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
16. “A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.”
– Leo Buscaglia
17. “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
18. “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
19.
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
– Marcel Proust
20. “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
– Woodrow T. Wilson
21. “Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.”
– Erma Bombeck
22. “Love is sharing your popcorn.”
– Charles Schultz
23. “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
– Albert Einstein
24. “Marriage is like vitamins: we supplement each other’s minimum daily requirements.”
– Kathy Mohnke
25. “Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
– Franklin P. Jones
26. “Love is a two-way street constantly under construction.”
– Carroll Bryant
27. “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
28. “What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.”
– Pearl Bailey
29. “I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”
– Rita Rudner
30. “Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
– Joan Crawford
31. “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
32. “For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
– Stephanie Perkins
33. “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
– Elizabeth Gilber
34. “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
35. “True love stories never have endings.”
– Richard Bach
36. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
– Aristotle
37. “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
– Morrie Schwartz
38. “Sometimes two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together.”
– Anonymous
39. “Love is a game that two can play and both can win.”
– Eva Gabor
40. “To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.”
– Domenico Cieri Estrada
41. “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
42. “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
43. “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
44. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
– Maya Angelou
45. “We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.”
– Joyce Meyer
46. “To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.”
– T. Tolis
47. “Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” – Pablo Picasso
48. “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
– Sarah Dessen
49. “Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you've never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you.
The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it's like being young again. Colors seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn't exist at all. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon.
You open your heart knowing that there's a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible.”
– Bob Marley
50. “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
51. “Unconditional loves 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
52. “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
53. “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
54. “So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
– Paulo Coehlo
55. “In case you ever foolishly forget, I am never not thinking of you.”
– Virginia Woolf
56. “There is my heart, and then there is you, and I'm not sure there is a difference.”
– A.R. Asher
57. “There are never enough I love you's.”
– Lenny Bruce
58. “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
59. “I love you, with no beginning, no end. I love you as you have become an extra necessary organ in my body. 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.”
– Jamie Weise
60. “I love you not because of what you have, but because of who you are.”
– Debasish Mridha
61. “If I get married, I want to be very married.”
– Audrey Hepburn
62. “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
– Mignon Mclaughlin
63. “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
64. “The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.”
– William Lyon Phelps
65. “The greatest marriages are built on teamwork; mutual respect, a healthy dose of admiration, and a never-ending portion of love and grace.”
– Fawn Weaver
66. “There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.”
– Martin Luther
67. “True love stands by each other’s side on good days and stands closer on bad days.”
– Anonymous
68. “Happiness is only real when shared.”
– Jon Krakauer
69. “I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
– E.M. Forster
70. “Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people; you can set your watch by them. And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting.”
– Sylvester Stallone
71. “Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.”
– Swedish Proverb
72. “The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
– Oscar Wilde
73. “Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.”
– E.E. Cummings
74. “Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.”
– Diane Arbus
76. “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.”
– Helen Keller
77. “Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.”
– Lao Tzu
78. “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
79. “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
80. “We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”
– Sam Keen
81. “The course of true love never did run smooth.”
– William Shakespeare
82. “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
83. “Love is not a maybe thing, you know when you love someone.”
– Lauren Conrad
84. “True love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… and rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.”
– Jodi Picoult
85. “Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.”
– Mandy Hale
86. “True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.”
– Alexandre Dumas
87. “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
88. “To be deeply loved means a willingness to cut yourself wide open, exposing your vulnerabilities… hopes, hurts, fears and flaws. Hiding behind the highlight reel of who you are, is the real you and that person is just as worthy of love. There is nothing more terrifying or fulfilling than complete love. It's worth the risk… reach for it.”
– Jaeda DeWalt
89. “We've lost a lot of years, but you can't lose love. Not real love. It stays locked inside you, ready for whenever you are strong enough to find it again.”
– Martina Boone
90. “Sometimes, he thought, real love is silent as well as blind.”
– Stephen King
91. “You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
– Dr. Seuss
92. “Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”
– Andre Breton
93. “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
94. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
– Lao Tzu
95. “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
96. “Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.”
– Mignon McLaughlin
97. “Love makes us invincible. Always be in Love. Life is not always about winning, It's about never surrendering.”
– Mimi Novic
98. “Falling in love is more than infatuation. It is the need to feel whole, to feel safe, to be healed, to join together with someone, heart, and soul.”
– Michael R French
99. “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.”
– Thomas Merton
100. “Being in love is all about the ability to give rather than take. It is not easy, but if you can accept this, then you will experience love.”
– Sushmita Sen
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