What does the word say about love

“Love is a many splendored thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love!”

Moulin Rouge – a movie all about love with their well-known quote, “the greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return”. The movie perfectly portrays how two people who were not allowed to be together would do everything in their willpower to love each other till they take their last breath.

That’s probably the general view of loving someone unconditionally that you would do everything and anything to be together. However, with over 7 billion people on this planet, not everyone will have the same definition. Love is a very diverse term. Everyone needs it in some way or another, and therefore, everyone has their own definition to what ‘love’ means to them.

Haikal, 12, Romantic, Adventurous

In my opinion, love is not how much you say ‘I love you’ but how much you can prove it’s true. It’s about how patient and kind you are, it does not include boasting, it is not how arrogant and rude you are.

Love means accepting a person with all their failures, stupidities, and their imperfection. For example, love means there is no more busy world, it’s always about priorities. You will always find times you feel the most important about.

So in conclusion, I think love is a variety of different feelings; it’s about accepting someone for who they are and have feelings and do whatever it takes to have their forgiveness or even their heart.

Joseph, 21, Withdrawn Over-Thinker

I don’t believe in love at first sight. Attraction at first sight, yes. Affection at first sight, perhaps. But love?

Love, to me, rests on the same cline as companionship. And companionship is the foundation of love. Respect, understanding, and enthusiasm are the pillars on which this foundation is built – not initial attraction, not initial perception.

I suppose I am, to an extent, a victim of the ‘mere-exposure effect,’ in which a preference for someone or something comes with familiarity. I was close friends with my girlfriend for seven years before ‘asking her out,’ and I truly think that this friendship has served as an excellent point of reference over the last two years.

Therein lies the crux of my contention: love is not the gunshot signaling that the race has begun, but nor is it the feeling of crossing the finishing line. Love is the race – the journey – itself. Cliché? Yeah, sort of, but I do think it holds that the muddy concept of ‘love’ cannot be confined to the claustrophobic space of initial meeting, and this casts heavy doubts over the idea of love at first sight.

I respect but can’t identify with the desire for ‘one night stands’ or ‘wicked hooks,’ or whatever lingo is being used these days to denote seemingly frivolous dealings with a significant (or not so significant) other. It simply isn’t in my personality to consider such physical interaction to be so detached from emotional connection.

Of course, that’s not to say that love is static; it is an ever-changing construct, arbitrarily named and largely blurred at its edges. For some people, love at first sight might both exist and be fruitful, and I’m totally fine with that. In fact, let me make an amendment to my opening statement: I don’t believe in love at first sight for me.

Love exists outside the realm of human relationships, but I think nuanced meaning clouds its existence. I love coffee, I love the fresh air, and I love poetry, but I’m not in love with them.

I am in love with my girlfriend.

Kirsty, 23, Secretly Sentimental

An important element of love is to love yourself. Accept yourself and embrace the parts of yourself that you don’t necessarily like about yourself. This is an important lesson in how to love someone else. If you love yourself, you can be more generous with the love you give to others. You find yourself feeling more fulfilled and more loved than you could possibly imagine. You’ll find yourself smiling at the thought of whoever it is that you find you love. Love means seeing flaws and accepting them as positive traits. You’ll feel a sense of completeness that you never knew you were lacking in the first place, and no matter how long you’ve been apart whether it be hours or months you’ll feel like you’re coming home.

Luke, 21, Avocado Enthusiast

To possess a true love for something, some place, some ideology or someone and feel the reciprocation is often perceived as a final hurdle on a pathway to utopia, ‘a hypothetical place or state of things where everything is perfect.’

If I were to use something as simple as an “avocado” as a representation of any human, object or place capable of being truly loved; love can be defined to me as the feelings you are overcome with when you stumble across one of these wonderful green oval-shaped specimens, one that is of perfect ripeness, far superior to any avocado you’ve found on the shelves before. So flawless that as your knife pierces through the delicate skin effortlessly leaving you two immaculate halves not only does your heart and mind constantly discover new boundaries of excitement but a level of contentedness and satisfaction settles in.

With a little feta cheese to accompany, all spread over the finest sourdough toast, and experienced in your own personal paradise, each bite brings forth feelings of invincibility and superiority that not a thing in the world can overcome the sheer happiness. I love avocados.

Sarah, 14, Open-Minded and Exciting

What is love to me? Love is something unconditional and can’t really be explained in words. Of course, I’ve never experienced it yet, but it’s something I wish to feel in my lifetime.

The best way you can really say it is, it’s a feeling that you can’t shake, no matter how hard you try. The feeling when you love that special someone or something you can never live without. The feeling to need them and protect them.

Love is when you look at that person, and your heart accelerates, you get goosebumps. Every time you touch them you feel the electricity radiating off the both of you. You can never feel selfish with them and sacrifice anything or everything if it means you can be with them for the rest of your life. It’s when that person makes you happy no matter how you’re feeling. No matter the gender, ethnicity or person.

But love isn’t easy, it comes with consequences and sacrifices that if you are willing to make you know you’ve found the right someone/something.

I know very few people who are truly, deeply, and madly in love with each other, and let me tell you every time I see that it gives me the shred of hope that there actually might be someone out there for me.

So that’s what love is to me. How bout you?

Sharvin, 19, Dog Lover

Everyone at a pinnacle point in their life has experienced love regardless if they were loved or have been loved. It’s an inevitable feeling that captures the heart with full on passion, infatuation, and desire. It comes in all sorts of forms like with family, friends or an intimate love. In my experience, love “feels so good but hurts so bad”, I went through many amazing memories of my life with the women I love but at the end, it will either end up a fairytale or just like a wrecking ball being swung at you at immense pace.

My love generally lies in the animal kingdom. Such exquisite creatures roaming on our planet for millions of years and have been proven a predominant significance. Dogs are my favorite, especially pugs, golden retrievers, shih tzu, and corgi’s! I have a pet dog that, in all honesty, feels like another younger sibling. Their presence is a remedy for sadness or stress; they will be there through your ups and downs, which clearly defines the term, “dogs are a man’s best friend”. They may be a little annoying at times when it comes to barking or pooping all over the house but hey they are not as privileged as humans to have an intellect.

Marina, 20, Classic and Eclectic

To me, love is the most powerful thing on this planet. It can make you go crazy, feel every emotion a human ought to feel all mixed together, it can make you sick, and it can also make you feel more alive than anything ever can. Whether it’s loving yourself or loving someone else (or even loving an idea or a thing), it will consume you and make you feel infinite.

To me, I know that love is the greatest thing out there – that without it, we are nothing. Something that pushes you to achieve it, no matter what others say or who stops you. It’s the happiness it can bring you when you’re feeling down and once taken away, that’s when you feel like everything has gone to hell.

To be frank, it is dangerous to love, but it’s a risk you should be willing to take. Love so deeply it overwhelms you. Once you fall in love with something or someone, you’ll know it. Trust me on this. It may take time, but it’ll be worth it. You just need to find your star.

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Here’s the thing about romantic love — it’s hard to put into words. But fortunately, these inspirational love quotes will make finding new ways to say «I love you» a whole lot easier.

When you fall in love, you want the other person to be happy, and being part of their happiness can inspire you to accomplish some of the most amazing feats you’ll ever undertake. Loving and being loved can make you feel more fulfilled than you’ve ever been.

And yet, while true love can get your creative juices flowing, many of us struggle to express exactly what we feel.

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Inspirational quotes about love can help explain those butterflies you get in your stomach, that warm fuzzy feeling in your head, and the way your heart skips a million beats in your chest. Share them with your true love, and watch the magic happen.

100 Inspirational Love Quotes To Say, «I Love You»

1. «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

Love is blind to imperfections.

2. «I look at you and see the rest of my life in front of my eyes.»

How love feels.

3. «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 brings happiness.

4. «All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love.» — Leo Tolstoy

What you learn from love.

5. «I’m much more me when I’m with you.»

Why love matters.

6. «It’s a very dangerous state. You are inclined to recklessness and kind of tune out the rest of your life and everything that’s been important to you. It’s actually not all that pleasurable. I don’t know who the hell wants to get in a situation where you can’t bear an hour without somebody’s company.» — Colin Firth

Why love hurts.

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

How love colors your world.

8. «To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.» — T. Tolis

Love is giving.

9. «In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.» — Theodor Reik

Love is unselfish.

10. «Maybe the only vow we ever need to offer the one we love is this: I will never, not for a sliver of a second, make you feel alone.» — Tyler Knott Gregson

All there is to say.

11. «There’s no substitute for a great love who says, ‘No matter what’s wrong with you, you’re welcome at this table.'» — Tom Hanks

Love does not judge.

12. «Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.» — Lao-Tzu

Love is strength.

13. «I have decided to stick to love; hate is too great a burden to bear.» — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love brings joy.

14. «Where there is love there is life.» — Mahatma Gandhi

Where love lies.

15. «If I could give you one thing in life, I would give you the ability to see yourself through my eyes, only then would you realize how special you are to me.»

When their happiness means everything.

16. «I can’t promise to fix all your problems, but I can promise you won’t have to face them all alone.»

When you know you won’t have to fight your battles alone.

17. «So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.» — Pablo Coelho

When the universe brought you together.

18. «At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.» ― Plato

How love is poetic.

19. «His love roared louder than her demons.»

Love makes all the negative thoughts disappear.

20. «One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.» ― Sophocles

Love is freedom.

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21. “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return.” — «Moulin Rouge»

There is no greater lesson in life than love.

22. «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, «The Notebook»

How love works.

23. «You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.» ― Jodi Picoult, «My Sister’s Keeper»

When love is real.

24. «And remember, as it was written, to love another person is to see the face of God.» — Victor Hugo, «Les Miserables»

Where love is, God is.

25. «I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.» — J.R.R. Tolkien, «Lord of The Rings»

Love without end.

26. «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, «Winnie the Pooh»

Love means togetherness.

27. «If I know what love is, it is because of you.» — Herman Hesse, «Narcissus and Goldmund»

Love is a teacher.

28. «Don’t forget I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.» — Anna (Julia Roberts) to William (Hugh Grant) in «Notting Hill»

Love is vulnerable.

29. «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 (Billy Crystal) in «When Harry Met Sally»

Love is crazy, mad, wonderful.

30. «You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you.» — Jane Austen’s «Pride & Prejudice»

Love is magical.

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31. «Once I knew you I never wanted to know anyone else.» — Leo Christopher

It only takes one.

32. «Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.» — Bette Davis

Why love hurts.

33. «Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.» — H. L. Mencken

How love works.

34. «I never want to stop making memories with you.» — Pierre Jeanty

When love means all your favorite memories are with each other.

35. «You can’t rush something you want to last forever.»

Love cannot be rushed.

36. «We were together. I forget the rest.» — Walt Whitman

When love makes everything else disappear.

37. «P.S. I love you.» — Cecelia Ahern

When you can’t help but write love letters.

38. «I love you past the moon and miss you beyond the stars.» — J.M. Storm

When your love is bigger than this Earth.

39. «Love you more.»

When it’s impossible to love anyone as much.

40. «Saw your worst and I stayed.»

When you stick around when things get tough.

41. «I looked at him as a friend until I realized I loved him.»

When your love is your best friend.

42. «Darling, you are all I ever wanted love to be.»

When your love is everything you’ve ever wanted.

43. «You are what I need in my life. You are my one.»

When you don’t want to live without your love.

44. «The first time you touched me, I knew I was born to be yours.»

When your love was meant to be.

45. «I’ll never have enough of your lips.»

When love’s kisses are addictive.

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46. «The greatest thing you’ll ever learn Is to love and be loved in return.» — Nat King Cole, «Nature Boy»

Why love is important.

47.»And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make.» — Sir Paul McCartney, «The End» (by The Beatles)

Love is give and take.

48. «All of me loves all of you.» — John Legend, «All of Me»

Love is everything.

49. «However far away, I will always love you. However long I stay, I will always love you. Whatever words I say, I will always love you. I will always love you.» — The Cure, «Lovesong»

When your love will last forever, no matter what.

50. «You and me together, through the days and nights. I don’t worry ’cause everything’s gonna be alright.» — Alicia Keys, «No One»

True love keeps you safe.

51. «It was always you.» — Maroon 5, «It Was Always You»

When love remains true.

52. «And when you’re needing your space to do some navigating, I’ll be here patiently waiting to see what you find.» — Jason Mraz, «I Won’t Give Up»

Because love is patient.

53. «Before the day I met you, life was so unkind. But you’re the key to my peace of mind.» — Aretha Franklin, «(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman»

Love can bring you peace like you’ve never known.

54. «I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.» — Ben Folds, «The Luckiest»

When no words can describe your love.

55. «You give me the most gorgeous sleep that I’ve ever had.» — No Doubt, «Underneath It All»

Love makes you sleep sweet.

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56. «All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.» — Charles Schulz

Love is silly.

57. «If you are lucky enough to find a weirdo, never let them go.»

When your love is just as weird as you.

58. «Because I could watch you for a single minute and find a thousand things that I love about you.»

Because love makes everything beautiful.

59. «I still haven’t figured out how to sit across from you, and not be madly in love with everything you do.» — William C. Hannan

When love makes you infatuated with every little thing they do.

60. «In French, you don’t say ‘I miss you.’ You say ‘Tu me manques’, which means ‘you are missing from me.’ I love that.»

When you’re missing your other half.

61. «Real love doesn’t meet you at your best. It meets you in your mess.»

Love is for better or worse.

62. «Your voice is my favorite sound.»

When you can listen to him talk for hours.

63. «I am totally completely eye-popping seriously groundbreaking passionately deliciously in love with you.»

When you’re madly in love and don’t care who knows it.

64. «You’re pretty much my most favorite of all time in the history of ever.»

When love is defined by your person.

65. «I remember the first day I ever looking into your eyes and felt my entire world flip.»

When you knew immediately this love was special.

66. «I just wanna see you. Hold you. Hug you. Touch you. Kiss you. Cuddle with you. Love you.»

When you feel like being lovey-dovey.

67. «You’re all my heart ever talks about.»

When all you do is talk about your love.

68. «I love you. You annoy me more than I ever thought possible. But I want to spend every irritating minute with you.»

When you even love how much they bug you.

69. «You are my favorite notification.»

When love lights up your phone.

70. «We fight, we kiss, we hug, we text, we talk, we argue, we laugh, we smile, we love … That’s us.»

When your relationship isn’t perfect, but you wouldn’t want it any other way.

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71. «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.»

Love is a choice.

72. «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.»

How you love like crazy.

73. «I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.» — Leo Christopher

Love grows and grows.

74. «Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive.»

Love is life.

75. «We are shaped and fashioned by those we love.» — Geothe

When love finds you

76. «When love is not madness it is not love.» ― Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Love is wild and crazy.

77. «Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.» ― Paulo Coelho

Love is untamed.

78. «Love is so short, forgetting is so long.» ― Pablo Neruda

How love should be.

79. «I wish I could turn back the clock. I’d find you sooner and love you longer.»

How love begins.

80. «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

Love is unselfish.

81. «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.»

Love is the little things.

82. «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

How love lasts.

83. «‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.» — Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Love is worth it.

84. «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.»

How love changes over time.

85. «I want you. All of you. Your flaws. Your mistakes. Your imperfections. I want you, and only you.»

Love is unconditional.

86. «There is a madness in loving you, a lack of reason that makes it feel so flawless.» — Leo Christopher

Love makes you lose your mind a little.

87. «She knew she loved him when ‘home’ went from being a place to being a person.» — E. Leventhal

Love feels like coming home.

88. «Someone who really loves you sees what a mess you can be, how moody you can get, how hard you are to handle, but still wants you.»

Loves accepts you and all of your flaws.

89. «Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.» — J.D. Salinger

When you share the same sense of humor.

90. «If you only knew how much those little moments with you mattered to me.»

When it’s the little things that matter most.

91. «How strange to dream of you even when I am wide awake.» — d.j.

When you found the person of your dreams.

92. «Sometimes, someone comes into your life, so unexpectedly, takes your heart by surprise, and changes your life forever.»

When your life will never be the same because love is in it.

93. «And suddenly all the love songs were about you.»

When every love song reminds you of your love.

94. «If I did anything right in my life, it was when I gave my heart to you.»

When love is the best decision you’ve made.

95. «I love that you are my person and I am yours, that whatever door we come to, we will open it together.» — A.R. Asher

When you go through life together.

96. «I was, and I remain, utterly and completely and totally in love with you.» — J.R. Ward

When you’ll be in love forever.

97. «And when I loved you, I realized, I have never truly loved anyone. I realized, I never will truly love anyone the way I love you.»

When your love is one of a kind.

98. «I fall more deeply in love with you, every single day.»

When your love only grows deeper over time.

99. «It’s not being in love that makes me happy. It is the person that I am in love with that does.»

When your love is the only one you’ll ever want.

100. «I love you, idiot.» — «Gilmore Girls»

When you’re simply in love.

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There’s nothing better than some romantic love quotes to help you get in touch with exactly what love means to you. Often, a great love quote or a few lines of dialogue or song lyrics can help you express yourself more eloquently. Great love sayings can help put your feelings into words. Here, a collection of our favorite quotes about love straight from the pros—from Jerry Maguire and Beyoncé to Shakespeare. Whether you’re looking for the perfect romantic love quote for your wedding vows, to include on your wedding invitations or you simply need help expressing yourself to your partner, let these famous love phrases do the talking for you.

Quotes About Love in this Article:

• Sweet/Cute Love Quotes
• Funny Love Quotes
• Short Love Quotes
• Inspirational/Beautiful Love Quotes
• Best Love Quotes
• Bible Love Quotes
• World Religions Love Quotes
• Famous Love Quotes
• Shakespeare Love Quotes
• Country Love Quotes
• Disney Love Quotes

Sweet/Cute Love Quotes

If romantic love quotes are too much, but a funny love quote isn’t appropriate, perhaps you’re in the market for a sweet love quote. Our collection of cute love quotes will make you smile without being too heavy-handed about your love.

Funny Love Quotes

There’s no doubt about it: There’s something funny about love! Funny love quotes and funny love phrases can be the perfect way to bring a smile to the face of someone you care about. It’s a sweet, tender way to share your emotions without being heavy handed. These quotes also work great in wedding toasts and speeches.

Short Love Quotes

Save the grand gestures and romantic speeches for your reception; sometimes brevity is key! These short love quotes prove that just a few short words can say everything. Jot one of these short love sayings on a scrap of paper and leave it under the pillow of your partner or hide them around the house. You’ll get smiles for days.

Inspirational/Beautiful Love Quotes

Love is powerful and can motivate, heal and inspire. These can’t-miss inspirational love quotes will give you all the feels. They make the perfect addition to an anniversary card, your wedding vows or just because. Make the day a little brighter for your someone special by sharing these quotes.

Best Love Quotes

The best love quotes are those that nail your feelings in one sentence. Opt for one of these love quotes if you’re looking for wedding wishes to send, or use one to spice up your wedding invitations!

Bible Love Quotes

There’s no doubt that the Bible is the ultimate guidebook for love. Whether you’re looking for a Bible love quote for a religious occasion or you’re exploring love and faith in your own life, these love quotes are a beautiful place to start.

World Religions Love Quotes

Every religion has something to say about love. For those who want to find love through their own faith or explore the teachings of other traditions, these love phrases are worth studying. Though they come from different faith leaders, from different parts of the world, and through the millennia, these quotes show that love is a common language to all.

86. «Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for your love is better than wine.» King Solomon, Song of Songs 1:2

87. «Radiate boundless love towards the entire world—above, below, and across—unhindered, without ill will, without enmity.» Buddha

88. «Love and compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion» Dalai Lama

89. «A husband and wife are one soul, separated only through their descent to this world. When they are married, they are reunited again.» The Zohar, 191a

90. «Love is a gift of one’s inner most soul to another so both can be whole.» Buddha

91. «A man should eat and drink less than his means, clothes himself according to his means, and honor his wife and children beyond his means.» Talmud, Chullin 84b

92. «Love is the absence of judgement» Dalai Lama

93. «The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.» Buddha

Famous Love Quotes

The whole world swooned when Jerry Maguire aimed those smoldering eyes at Dorothy and said, «You complete me.» If you want to make a splash with just one quote, a famous love quote is the way to go. After all, they’re timeless for a reason!

Shakespeare Love Quotes

These quotes about love come straight from the master of love himself—you guessed it—William Shakespeare! If you want to dazzle your partner with some of the most poetic sentiments around, then trust the bard. These Shakespearean love sayings will take your beloved’s breath away.

104. «Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark, that looks on tempests and is never shaken.» – «Sonnet 116»

105. «Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.» – Hamlet

106. «Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.» – King Henry V

107. «Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs.» – Romeo and Juliet

108. «I do love nothing in the world so well as you.» – Much Ado About Nothing

109. «Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind.» – A Midsummer Night’s Dream

110. «Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.» – All’s Well That Ends Well

111. «The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.» – As You Like It

112. «Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, Did my heart fly at your service» – The Tempest

113. «Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.» – «Venus and Adonis»

114. «Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?» – As You Like It

115. «Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, Did my heart fly at your service.» The Tempest

116. «What is light, if Sylvia be not seen? What is joy if Sylvia be not by?» The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Country Love Quotes

Give your sentiments a country-style kick with our list of romantic and sentimental country love quotes. Whether you’re looking for a quote to match your wedding’s country vibe, or simply love country music, we’ve got you covered with these quotes about love.

Disney Love Quotes

We’re crushing hard on Disney love quotes because, well, it’s Disney. Simple, sweet, and dipped in nostalgia, you can use these love phrases for just about anything. Just don’t call them cartoonish!

137. «I have just met you and I love you.» Dug, Up

138. «I’d rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you.» – John Smith, Pocahontas

139. «You were my new dream» – Flynn Rider, Tangled

140. «Love is an open door.» – Anna and Hans, Frozen

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“What is love” is a question many psychologist have tried to answer. There are many theories proposed to define love, but many people have regarded love as an emotion better felt than studied and explained. Some even implied that love is simply a thing that science could not understand. Despite the prejudices, experts, just like ordinary people, never gave up on finding the true meaning of love. They never stopped searching for the reason why we are drawn to certain people and not others, why we fall in love and why do we stay in love? Love drives people yet we do not know what causes it. Prolific poets and writers wrote poems, sonnets and novels about love, painters expressed love through carefully crafted images, composers captured love in many songs and directors made a plethora of movies about love but do we already know what is love? Is there a general theory of love? Let Good Morning Quote discover the true meaning of love with these what is love theories and types that aim to define what love is, so we all can understand this concept fully.

1. Love is a chemical reaction

The theoretical physicist and science writer Jim Al-Khalili had a scientific answer to the question, “What is love?” According to him, same as hunger and thirst, love is also a strong neurological condition. The only distinctive quality of love against other neurological conditions is the fact that it has the ability to last and continue for a longer period of time. He compared lust and true love. Lust is only viewed as an ephemeral passionate sexual desire which involves an increased outburst of testosterone and estrogen. While true love is a long-term attachment and bond between two persons which involves a release of a whole new different set of chemicals like pheromones, dopamine, norepinephrine, serotonin, oxytocin, and vasopressin. He also pointed that love is a survival mechanism we use to have long-term companionship, mutual defense, feeling of security and safety and feeling of belongingness.

2. Love is colorful

Back in 1973, John Lee, publishes a book titled “The Colors of Love” where he identified different kinds of love and compared them on the colors of the color wheel. He defined what love means with the help of colors. According to him, like the three primary colors there are also three primary love styles. He referred to them as Eros Ludus, and Storge. Eros is the love of an ideal person, Ludus is love as a game and Storge is love as friendship. And like the combination of primary colors, the three kinds of love can also be combined with one another to create a secondary type of love which he referred to as Mania, Pragma, and Agape. When Eros and Ludus are combined together, it results for Mania or obsessive love. Pragma is the realistic or practical love while Agape is selfless love. All of the words he used are from the language Greek. Unlike the modern day definition of love, Greeks used different terms to refer to different kinds of love. Today, saying “I love you” can mean a lot of things so it may be necessary to add a modifier to make it more specific.

3. Love is a passionate commitment

According to the philosopher Julian Baggini, love is a passionate commitment. Although he acknowledges that love is hard to find and define since it comes from many things, he believed that all kinds of love is a kind passionate commitment that people nurture and develop even though we did not ask for it to come to our lives and even though it came to our lives uninvited. We can have different kinds of love like love for God, family, parents, lovers, children, country and friends. Every kind of love we give also is known to have different qualities, some are unconditional, blinded, steadfast, fickle, misguided, one-sided, taken-for-granted and reciprocated. But more than these qualities, love is a powerful feeling but without a passion, it can only be determined as dedication and without commitment, it is only an infatuation. It needs nurturing to survive.

4. Love drives all great stories

Jojo Moyes, an award-wining novelist describes love as the driver of all great stories. It does not only drive amazing love stories but also motivates a lot of other love like the unconditional love of a mother or parent to a child, the worshiping love of people to God, the patriotic love of people for the nation, and the love for nature and friends. She added that love depends on the degree of our bond to it and the degree of how secure we feel with it. Love can be as dull as ordinary or as essential as the air we breathe. It can make us feel a lot of feelings like when we are deprived of it, sometimes it makes us feel obsessed, consumed and hurt but that is what drives a beautiful story.

5. Love is free, yet binds us.

What is love for Catherine Wybourne, a Benedictine nun? She ironically stated that “Love is free yet binds us”. It is a seemingly unbelievable statement but it is true. The paradox of love is that it is supremely free but it attaches us with bonds stronger than death. Love is God’s greatest blessing in our life. We can hold on to it for as long as we want since it can never be bought or sold and there is nothing that it will not be able to encompass. No huge obstacle can defeat it. To Catherine, love is much easier to be experienced rather than defined. We can love anyone but we should love God above all things and love our neighbors above ourselves. Love is the act of generosity, kindness, self-sacrifice and selflessness that binds us all.

6. Love is an intangible connection

Brene Brown also had an answer to the question “What is love?” She noted that love is an intangible connection between two people that feels exceptionally good. It is a strong and deep connection between people. The connection can commonly be measured by the degree of self-acceptance each person has for themselves and the level of honesty, exposure and vulnerability a person is willing to surrender and give to each other. There are also qualities that must be present in the connection. These are trust, respect and affection.  Trust is the belief that someone is reasonable, reliable, honest, and good, and has good intentions and integrity toward us. Respect is a particular way of thinking that someone is valuable, important and worthy of appreciation. And affection is the demonstration of good intentions to someone through action. Furthermore, she added that love is not an emotion but a connection where our feelings tend to be the reaction to the quality of connection or bond that is created. If there is connection, it will be easier to find love.

7. Love takes many forms

The psychotherapist Philippa Perry once said that “Love has many guises”. According to her, our ancestors did not just lump all different variations of feelings in one word like we did with the word “love”.  The types of love mentioned were Philia, Ludus, Pragma, Agape, Philautia and Eros. She may have defined them slightly different from the colors of love by John Lee. Philia was defined as a deep and commonly non-sexual love for best friends and family. Ludus was referred as an affection with so much play just like flirting and fooling around. Pragma is the love between long-term lovers which has maturity, commitment, understanding and goodwill. Agape is the generalized love for all humanity. Philautia is caring for oneself or self-love. And Eros is the most controversial of all which is love with sexual desire and passion. Although it is impossible to get all the types of love from one person; friends, family and humanity plays an important role for everybody.

8. Love is an emotion in action.

If Lee used the round color wheel to demonstrate the meaning of love, the Psychologist Robert Sternberg used triangle shape to propose his love theory. Here is Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory of Love. He said that love is composed of three components: intimacy, passion and commitment. Different combinations of these components results in different types of love. There are eight types he mentioned: Nonlove which is a casual interaction with the absence of the three components, Liking is intimacy alone which is seen in friendships where there is warmth, intimacy and closeness but lacks passion, decision and commitment, Infatuation is passion alone which is common on “love at first sight” events and is usually an extreme attraction for someone which lacks any real intimacy and commitment, Empty love is commitment alone where partners lack intimacy and passion which can commonly be seen on arranged marriage and at the end of long-term relationships, Romantic Love is the combination of passion and intimacy which is characterized by a strong closeness and connection with a powerful physical attraction, Companionate Love is a combination of intimacy and commitment which can be seen on best friend relationships, Fatuous Love is combined passion and commitment but lacks intimacy, and lastly, Consummate Love which is the combination of the three components but is described to be un-achievable and rare. In this theory, we can answer the question “What is true love?” with consummate love.

9. Love is mere exposure

What is the definition of love? How does it happen? In 1968, Robert Zajonc, discovered the ‘mere exposure’ effect’ where we tend to like things and people that are familiar to us. We all get exposed to different things and different people every day and as it happens repetitively, it unwittingly allows us to practice love. The mere exposure theory also aids in explaining propinquity – the idea that one of the main determinants of interpersonal attraction is physical proximity. Let’s delve deeper into the theory of love and attraction. The Social Psychologist, Leon Festinger et al. conducted a series of studies back in 1950 where they discovered that the development of friendships are directly related to the distance. People are more likely to become friends and lovers when they live closer to each other.

10. Love is attraction to similarities

Despite the famous science fact which can often be regarded as a love quote “Opposite attracts,” the theory of clone attraction says that we are actually more attracted to people who are similar to us in some ways. It can be similarities on personality, religious beliefs, physical appearance, education and many more. Research also dictates that couples with similarities last longer and live happier. A controversial tests also discovered that people tend to choose morphed versions of their faces when asked to pick an image that they think is attractive. Remember the common joke around circles of friends when we try to tell long-term couples that they are already starting to look alike. Maybe at the start, similarities are not obvious but it is eventually realized.

Learning about the theories of love can help each of us to have a good start on how to find love. Finding love is never easy but having an idea and a definite answer in mind on the question “What is love?” makes it easier for us to realize matters about what we feel. Indeed, there are a lot of definitions and theories about love but in the end, the decision on what you should consider as love lies in your opinion and beliefs. Let this list be your guide in finding love and feel free to share images with someone special on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or Pinterest. If you love the article and is desiring for more, check out Lovely Wedding Quotes, Letting Go Quotes, Saturday Quotes, Friday Quotes, Quotes about Strength, Thanksgiving Quotes, Tagalog Love Quotes and Sexy Love Quotes.