50 Meaningful Love Quotes
“Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.” – Oscar Wilde
“Where there is love there is life.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“I have decided to stick to love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” – Ursula K. Le Guin
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.” – Ernest Hemingway
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” – Jimi Hendrix
“You’ve got to learn to leave the table when love’s no longer being served.” – Nina Simone
“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.” – Kahlil Gibran
“We accept the love we think we deserve.” – Stephen Chbosky
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
“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 that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert A. Heinlein
“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” – Nicholas Sparks
“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.” – Jodi Picoult
“Love conquers all.” – Virgil
“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.” – Jess C. Scott
“Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
“We love the things we love for what they are.” – Robert Frost
“I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.” – Steve Maraboli
“You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It’s not overrated. There’s a reason for all those songs.” – Sarah Dessen
“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.” – C.S. Lewis
“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” – Maya Angelou
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection” – Sharon Salzberg
“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” – Kurt Vonnegut
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” – Oscar Wilde
“One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.” – Sophocles
“The more one judges, the less one loves.” – Honoré de Balzac
“I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.” – Lauren Oliver
“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
“Don’t cry over someone who wouldn’t cry over you.” – Lauren Conrad
I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.
“Self-love is the source of all our other loves.” – Pierre Corneille
“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.” – Elinor Glyn
“Don’t waste your love on somebody, who doesn’t value it.” – William Shakespeare
“Love, I’ve come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.” – Nicholas Sparks
“Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.” – Rumi
“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything” – Katharine Hepburn
“Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.” – Nicholas Sparks
“Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” – James Baldwin
“There’s a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.” – Gillian Flynn
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” – Victor Hugo
“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.” – Maya Angelou
“The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you’ve already stopped loving that person forever.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.” – Bertrand Russell
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou
“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.” – Mitch Albom