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Here are 110 of the best love quotes I could find.

I hope you’ll find inspiration through the beautiful words of Shakespeare, Einstein, Picasso, Thoreau, Jane Austen, and lots more.

Enjoy!

You call it madness, but I call it love. Don Byas

Where there is love there is life. Mahatma Gandhi

To love is risky. Not to love is foolish. Maxime Lagacé

Only one life, that soon is past. Only what’s done with love will last. Unknown

To love is to burn, to be on fire. Jane Austen

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. Jimi Hendrix

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Even better than being loved is being in love. Naval Ravikant

Love isn’t finding a perfect person. It’s seeing an imperfect person perfectly. Sam Keen

I know of no greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, without end. Franz Kafka

We love because it’s the only true adventure. Nikki Giovanni

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Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age. Jeanne Moreau

Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. Augustine of Hippo

Love is boundary-less. Angel Haze

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. Simone Weil

Just in case you have forgotten today: You matter. You are loved. You are worthy. You are magical. Unknown

The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. Vincent van Gogh

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A few thoughts on love…

What does love mean to you?

The way I think about it is this: love will make you live a remarkable life, BUT, there’s a high probability you’ll get hurt in the process.

After all, to love is to risk, right?

I’m sorry to disappoint you…

And that’s what happened to me in 2004 after I lost my girlfriend in a car accident.

I loved and gave a part of me and then lost it, suddenly.

Before that, I remember only beautiful moments, smiles, fun, and connection.

Then, in the following years, I wasn’t able to love as much since I’ve been hurt so badly.

I was scared to try again.

Want to know the good part?

It took me a few years, but I finally realized that I couldn’t hold myself indefinitely.

Life was meant to be lived and I preferred to give everything than have regrets.

They say love is the answer and I believe it.

What about you?

The Best Love Quotes

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True love stories never have endings. Richard Bach

Love’s greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred. Barbara De Angelis

Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world. Mary Oliver

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. Maya Angelou

Him that I love, I wish to be free – even from me. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

In the end we discover that to love and let go can be the same thing. Jack Kornfield

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. James Baldwin

Love must be as much a light as it is a flame. Henry David Thoreau

I wish I had done everything on Earth with you. The Great Gatsby

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. Andre Gide

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A loving heart is the truest wisdom. Charles Dickens

Knowing, understanding and accepting yourself is your first step to everything you want in life. Maxime Lagacé

We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden

I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. Roy Croft

Love is the product of how you respond … Love is showing your partner they’re safe, you’ll catch them if they fall, and you’ll drop everything if they need you. Love is unconditional. Love doesn’t keep score. Shane Parrish

Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever – only, nothing is eternal. Audre Lorde

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other. Felix Adler

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. Sophocles

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love. Lao Tzu

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form. Franz Kafka

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. Washington Irving

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. Marge Piercy

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. Barbara De Angelis

Part 2. Love Quotes That Are…

The Most Famous Love Quotes

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Searching for a famous love quote or author? Check out those ones by Shakespeare, Einstein, Picasso, Monroe, Thoreau, etc. Enjoy!

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. Friedrich Nietzsche

Love all, trust a few. William Shakespeare

Love is a better teacher than duty. Albert Einstein

There is no remedy for love but to love more. Henry David Thoreau

Love is often the fruit of marriage. Molière

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle

You look amazing. I’m so lucky. Prince Harry

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu

You make me want to be a better man. Melvin Udall (As Good As It Gets)

It doesn’t matter if the guy is perfect or the girl is perfect, as long as they are perfect for each other. Sean (Good Will Hunting)

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The giving of love is an education in itself. Eleanor Roosevelt

We must be our own before we can be another’s. Ralph Waldo Emerson

I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best. Marilyn Monroe

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher. Socrates

You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. Dr. Seuss

Love is the greatest refreshment in life. Pablo Picasso

All you need is love. Paul McCartney

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

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. Rumi

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal. John Lennon

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Victor Hugo

Short Quotes About Love

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One-liners, short love quotes, sayings, thoughts, and captions for your bio, social status, self-talk, motto, mantra, signs, posters, wallpapers, and backgrounds.

Saying no to others sometimes means saying yes to yourself. Maxime Lagacé

We can only learn to love by loving. Iris Murdoch

If you don’t love yourself who will? Naval Ravikant

He is not a lover who does not love forever. Euripides

To love is, first of all, to accept ourselves as we actually are. Thich Nhat Hanh

Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. Franklin P. Jones

The love we give away is the only love we keep. Elbert Hubbard

Givers need to set limits because takers rarely do. Rachel Wolchin

Being weird together is a love language. Unknown

Be with someone who is proud to have you. Unknown

No one is you and that is your super power. Unknown

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable. Madame de Stael

Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. James D. Bryden

Love is sharing your popcorn. Charles Schultz (Charlie Brown)

Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Katherine Anne Porter

Where there is great love, there are always miracles. Willa Cather

If you care enough, you will find a way. Maxime Lagacé

If you can’t stop thinking about it, it’s a good thing. It means you’re alive. Maxime Lagacé

Whoso loves, believes the impossible. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You are enough. Unknown

The first duty of love is to listen. Paul Tillich

Inspirational Love Quotes

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Patience is the mark of true love. If you truly love someone, you will be more patient with that person. Thich Nhat Hanh

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. Martin Luther King Jr

Close your eyes, take your time and listen. What does your heart says? Maxime Lagacé

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself. Soren Kierkegaard

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. Howard Washington Thurman

Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn’t sentimental. It doesn’t have to be pretty, yet it doesn’t deny pain. Sharon Salzberg

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment. Barbara De Angelis

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her! Charles Dickens

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing. Lorraine Hansberry

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. Barbara De Angelis

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you. William Arthur Ward

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. George MacDonald

I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone. J.R.R. Tolkien

Some call it passion, motivation, madness, foolishness, intuition, inspiration. Others don’t care at all and just do it because of that small voice inside. Maxime Lagacé

Through you, I realized that life gave me everything. Maxime Lagacé

A source of trouble is our unruly minds. We can counter that by developing a warm heart. We need to effect an inner transformation, to understand that love and affection are a real source of joy. Dalai Lama

In a true partnership, the kind worth striving for, the kind worth insisting on, and even, frankly, worth divorcing over, both people try to give as much or even a little more than they get. ‘Deserves’ is not the point. And ‘owes’ is certainly not the point. The point is to make the other person as happy as we can, because their happiness adds to ours. The point is – in the right hands, everything that you give, you get. Amy Bloom

There is a love, that blazes up and is forgotten; there is a love until death. Søren Kierkegaard

Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? Helen Keller

Love is the beauty of the soul. Augustine of Hippo

I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. Helen Keller

‘Light! Give me light!’ was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour. Helen Keller

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves. Saint Francis de Sales

In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted, atrocious. Marcel Proust

Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person. James Thurber

We need not think alike to love alike. David Ferenc

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This day, I vow to myself to love myself, to treat myself as someone I love truly and deeply – in my thoughts, my actions, the choices I make, the experiences I have, each moment I am conscious, I make the decision “I love myself”. Kamal Ravikant

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I hope you enjoyed these beautiful love quotes. If you did, please share them with a friend today!

What is love to you? What was your favorite quote? And remember: words can transform your life, if you find the right ones.

Are you looking for beautiful words of love to express your love? If yes, then this post is just for you. Finding the apt words of love to express your feelings can be difficult, but not here. In this post, you are going to explore the most romantic, inspirational and encouraging words of love. These words of love will surely provide words to the unsaid and untold feelings of love in your heart for that special person of your life.

Inspirational words of love:

This is out first section where you will read the best inspirational words of love. These beautiful words will make your lover feel love-inspired. Not only this, but if you have a love interest or you have a crush on someone, you can send these messages to make this realize how beautiful the feeling of love is… and you never know, they might just fall for you!!

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Do not dwell in the past.
Always live in your present
for its worth your time.
And present is really beautiful,
as it is full of love!

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In true love,
age and distance
are just numbers.

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Love is one such pure feeling
where only hearts talk
and everything else seems
to be unnecessary.

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Always love yourself
first then only you can learn to love others.

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Love not to bind them
but to unwind them.

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Remember them with soft love songs
instead of sad emotional songs.
That’s when love grows manifolds.

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Love should be your strength
instead of being your weakness.

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Find love in the eyes of person
in which you see everything.

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Love is the most beautiful disease
that can be spread around.

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Love each other till the height,
width and breadth your soul can reach.

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Where there is love,
there is liveliness.

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There is no limit to love and spread love!

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A loved soul is the most
blessed soul in the world.

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Love also instills
a feeling of maturity in oneself.
It lets you see the world differently and with care.

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Love is ‘smiling you’.
Love is ‘laughing you’.
The most cherished part
of my daily living is always ‘loving you’.

Words of Wisdom about Love:

Words of wisdom play a very important role in inspiring the person for positive and joyful thoughts. Words of wisdom about love can help people understand that beautiful feeling called ‘love’ in a much better way. In this section of ours, you will get to read the best words of wisdom about love. You can share these words of wisdom with anyone in your social or personal circle.

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Love is not only between lovers.
It can be between any two souls
sharing a strong relationship.

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The bond of love
is the strongest for it is tied
with the most tensile thread
of feelings and emotions.

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Love is when
there are words unsaid
but feelings felt closely.

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Love should be
the reason to success
in every aspect
as it is the most
beautiful feeling in the world.

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One who hasn’t loved,
hasn’t experienced the world’s most divine feeling.

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Let yourselves be loved
and you shall have power
to conquer anything in the world.

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Love is not about
having similarities between the souls,
its about respecting the differences.

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Love is when he/she is beside you every time,
be it time of sorrow or happiness.

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If love makes you look stupid,
never step back from it,
as this is the stupidity
that you will cherish forever.

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Love is having four eyes,
four legs, four arms,
but a half heart.

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Do not look for love,
instead look for person with love.

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Love is not loving each other young,
but it is more about dying old together.

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Love makes
even the most imperfect souls
to thrive perfectly.

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If I would be asked
what I am thinking at any point of time,
it is you.

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Love is when
words become superfluous
and feelings talk to each other.

Romantic Words of Love:

Are you looking for romantic words of love to send to your lover? If yes, then this section is surely going to help you. Here, you will read the most romantic words of love. These romantic words of love will help you in expressing your feelings to your lover and will also spark up your romantic life.

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Bring love in any relationship
or work that you do
and you shall start enjoying it differently.

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Rise in love
and you shall possess
the power to overcome
any difficulties you may face in future.

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Falling in love
can’t be a one time practice.
I fall in love over and over again
on seeing you smile.

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Love makes your life a fairy tale.

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Love makes you fly high
even without alcohol.
That’s the magic of it.

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Love for me is,
when everything starts with you
in the morning
and ends with you in the night.

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Love is a feeling
that drives us crazy
and that craziness lets you experience a different world.

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When you love someone,
the only thing that matters
is their happiness no matter what it may cost us.

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Love makes that one person
your world even though
they are just a person for the rest of the world.

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Its not about dying together
like Romeo and Juliet
but living and growing old like grandparents.

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Everything becomes just perfect
when your loved ones are with you always.

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Love is like
making that beautiful dream come true
of spending moments together.

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Love is when
they understand your feelings
even without you saying a word.

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Love is about silently
caring for him/her
and looking after them without their noticing.

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Love need not be perfect,
it just needs to be true.

Words of Love and Encouragement:

There are many people who are scared of taking risk in love. These people need a dose of encouragement on love and life in order to make them realize the worth and importance of it. This is the last section of our post where you will read the best words of love and encouragement. You can send these wonderful messages to anyone who is in need of encouragement regarding love and life.

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It is not about
changing just a relationship status,
instead its about changing lives.

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Love happens to all.
It’s just that
we need to wait for the right moment.

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Love God
and God will hand you
to the best person suitable for you.

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You should have
the best understanding
of the differences in love.

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True love doesn’t have
a happy ending,
because it never ends.

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Don’t wish for someone
to love you completely
but wish for someone
who will complete you!

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Love is not only about caring
and showing love on a date
or beside a beach or at a dinner,
it is also about respect,
trust and compromises.

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Always keep love in your heart,
for without it,
heart is like a flowerless garden.

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In love, other person’s happiness
is more important than your own.

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Just like a flower can’t blossom without sunshine,
similarly a person cannot survive without love.

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Never fall in love,
instead rise in it
for love has the power
to rise dead from the graves.

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It is love when two souls unite to form one.
It is love when two hearts beat like one.

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Love completes life,
it redefines living.

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Love not only brings
two souls together
but it also helps us
to gather strength overcome the barriers
and shortcomings in between.

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Love brings music,
joy, comfort, happiness
and all worldly pleasures
once you start experiencing it.

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In order to be love,
spread love!

Love is such a beautiful feeling. But very few people realize it. Therefore, in order to spread love in the world, it is very important to encourage them for love and make them realize how beautiful it is to be in love. Hope you enjoyed reading all the lovely sections of this post. Even I enjoyed writing all these messages for you, with a hope in my heart that these messages will help you and other people around you in some way.

Remember, keeping spreading the magic of love. After all, In order to be love… first you need to spread love!!

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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.

RELATED: 101 Romantic Quotes For People Who Are In Love

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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Who has never heard the name William Shakespeare? He is a poet who is arguably the most popular in the world. For centuries, his work has always been echoed everywhere. Some of his great works, even like Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Othello and Romeo and Juliet, have become timeless works for all time.

His romantic literary works are indeed very popular and are able to attract anyone’s heart. Not only his romantic literary works are always echoed, Shakespeare’s wise words are also often sought. Pearl writings born of him are indeed so fantastic. He gave birth to so many famous quotes that often imply the wisdom of life.

His words leave a beautiful message about love and life, also about how to live life wisely. For those of you who are looking for inspiration about life, you can also refer to the wise words delivered by Shakespeare.

Following this, portal-ilmu.com has summarized a collection of wise words about the wisdom of life from William Shakespeare.

1 # Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

Self-love, my persuasion, is not a heinous sin, like self-neglect.

2 # There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

There is no good or bad, but thought makes it so.

3 # To be, or not to be, that is the question.

Being, or not becoming, is the question.

4 # All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players

All the world is a stage, and all men and women are just players

5 # It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Not in the stars of our destiny, but in ourselves.

6 # Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Restless rests on the head wearing the crown.

7 # The wheel is come full circle.

The wheel is always in full circle.

8 # Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

Better three hours too fast, than one minute late.

9 # Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never tastes of death but once.

Cowards die many times before their death; The brave person never feels death even just once.

10 # My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

My words fly, my mind stays below. Words without thoughts never go to heaven.

11 # A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

A fool considers himself wise, but a wise person knows that he is stupid.

12 # Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

Don’t be afraid of greatness. Some people are born big, some reach greatness, and others have the greatness offered to them.

13 # I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!

I will challenge you to a battle of reason, but I see you are unarmed!

14 # Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

Saying his speech, I pray for you, when I say it to you, stumbling on the tongue.

15 # Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.

Love is not seen with the eyes, but with the mind.

16 # Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

Match actions with words, words with actions.

17 # We know what we are, but not what we might be.

We know who we are, but not what we really are.

18 # No legacy is so rich as honesty.

There is no inheritance so rich as honesty.

19 # From women’s eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, that shows, contain, and nourish all the world.

From the eyes of women, I get this doctrine: They still light the right Promethean fire; They are books, art, academies, and shows, containing, and filling the whole world.

20 # Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Some rose because of sin, and some because of the fall of kindness.

21 # All the world is a stage, and all the men and women are just players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.

All the world is a stage, and all men and women are just players. They have their exits and entrances; And one person in his time played many parts.

22 # All that glitters is not gold.

All that glitters is not gold.

23 # Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Love all, believe a little, don’t do anything wrong to anyone.

24 # How sharper than a serpent’s tooth is to have a thankless child!

How sharper than a snake’s teeth, when we have an ungrateful child!

25 # If you prick us, don’t we bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us, don’t we die? And if you are wrong, we shall we not revenge?

If you stab us, don’t we bleed? If you tickle us, don’t we laugh? If you poison us, we do not die? And if you violate us, we will not get revenge?

26 # When we were born we cry that we are coming. To this great stage of fools.

When we are born, we cry because of our arrival. For this great stupid stage.

27 # Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we might win, by fearing to attempt.

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good things we might win, for fear of trying.

28 # Out, out brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage.

Come out, come out short candle! Life is just a shadow of walking, a bad player, It stammers and makes him restless on the stage.

29 # Brevity is the soul of wit.

Conciseness is the soul of intelligence.

30 # We are such stuff. As dreams are made on; and our little life. Is rounded with a sleep

We are such things. Like a dream made; and our little life. Rounded up with sleep.

31 # Men of few words are the best men.

Men with few words are the best men.

32 # Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Give everyone your ears, but a little of your voice.

33 # The web of our lives is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together

The web of our lives is made of blended yarns, good and bad together.

34 # The time of life is short! To spend that baseless shortness were too long.

Life time is short! To spend it is too long

35 # I love long life better than figs.

I like longevity better than figs.

36 # With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

With excitement and laughter let the old wrinkles come.

37 # I would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety.

I will give all my fame for a bottle of beer, and security.

38 # Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Fun and action make time feel short.

39 # To do a great right do a little wrong.

To do right, do the wrong bit.

40 # The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

Crazy people, lovers, and poets, all imagine.

41 # It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.

It is the stars, the stars above us, that govern our conditions.

42 # There is no darkness but ignorance.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

43 # God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

44 # The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Empty vessels make the loudest sounds.

45 # But love is blind, and lovers cannot see.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see.

46 # This above all, to thine own self be true.

This is above all, for yourself is true.

47 # When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

When sadness comes, they come not as single spies, but in battalions.

48 # The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope.

Suffering has no other medicine, but only hope.

49 # Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

50 # Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Ignorance is God’s curse; knowledge is the wing where we fly to heaven.

51 # When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

When a father gives to his son, both of them laugh; when a son gives to his father, both of them cry.

52 # As soon as going kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

Immediately light a fire with snow, like trying to put out the fire of love with words.

53 # The course of true love never did run smooth.

The journey of true love never goes smoothly.

54 # Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

Better a smart fool than smart fool.

Well, that’s a collection or summary of wise words about love and life and wisdom delivered by world-renowned poet, William Shakespeare. Hopefully able to provide the best inspiration for you.

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Life is a gift.

When we embrace all that life has to offer, we can achieve success both personally and professionally. One way to do this is to surround ourselves with love. 

Love with a romantic partner, love for family and friends, and love for living life to the fullest.  When we set our goals to focus on what’s truly important, it’s easy to find meaning with our daily actions.

That’s why in this post, you will discover 140 great quotes that focus on all aspects of love (i.e. romantic love, great friendships, and love for experiencing all that life has to offer.) And wise quotes about everything in between.

To help you out, we have separated this post into five sections, with a few large picture quotes to share with your loved ones.

What is the Meaning of Love?

If you have chosen to be your best even when the other person you are with isn’t at their best, then you have chosen to love this person, and this person is likely your best friend. Love is more than a feeling; it should also be considered an enacted emotion.

And if you’d like to take your romance to the next level, then we recommend two things: 

1. Create a few of the 21 relationship goals that we cover here.
2. Scheduling regular date nights with your significant other.

Remember: Love is kindness, and love is an adventure.  So let’s learn more about this by checking out the following short inspirational quotes:

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Love Quotes and Sayings

1. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”– Lao Tzu
2. “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”– Friedrich Nietzsche
3. Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do. – David Wilkerson

1. “Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”– Lucille Ball
2. “The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It is focused attention.”– Richard Warren
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

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”– Victor Hugo

1. “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard but must be felt with the heart.”– Helen Keller
2. “Love is, in fact, an intensification of life, a completeness, a fullness, a wholeness of life.”– Thomas Merton
3. ​“Love is a friendship set to music.”– Joseph Campbell
4. ​“In order to be happy oneself, it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.”– Theodor Reik
5. “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

1. ​“We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.”– George W. Melville
2. “Everyone in life is gonna hurt you; you just have to figure out which people are worth the pain.” – Erica Baican
3. “Age does not protect you from love, but love, to some extent, love protects you from age.”– Jeanne Moreau
4. ​“You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”– Sam Keen

1. ​“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”– Albert Ellis
2. “True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” – Erich Segal
3. “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.” – Neil Gaiman
4. “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” – Sarah Dessen
5. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”– William Shakespeare
6. “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

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

1. “Where there is love there is life.” – Mahatma Gandhi
2. “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.” – Plato
3. “The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it. Sometimes love blinds us, other times it lets us see.” – George Bernard Shaw
4. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert Heinlein
5. “If you have it, Love, you don’t need to have anything else, and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter much what else you have.” – James M. Barrie
6. “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” – Henry David Thoreau
7. “A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.” – Thomas Carlyle
8. Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.” – H. L. Menken

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.” – H. L. Menken

1. “Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.” – Oscar Wilde
2. “Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
3. “It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.” – Thomas Mann
4. “If you would be loved, love and be lovable.” – Benjamin Franklin
5. “The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.” – Francois de la Rochefoucauld
6. “Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.” – Peter Ustinov
7. “This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

1. “Forgiveness is the final form of love.” – Reinhold Niebuhr
2. “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.” – 1 Corinthians 13:4
3. “Whoso loves believes the impossible.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
4. “Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” – Rumi
5. “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
6. “What will survive of us is love.” – Philip Larkin
7. “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
8. “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.” – Maya Angelou

“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.” – Maya Angelou

1. “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” – James Baldwin
2. “Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.” – Lord Byron
3. “Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.” – Dorothy Parker
4. “Love in its essence is spiritual fire.” – Seneca
5. “Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.” – Lao Tzu
6. “The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.” – Henry Miller

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.” – Henry Miller

1. “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” – Khalil Gibran
2. “Love does not dominate; it cultivates.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
3. “We are most alive when we’re in love.” – John Updike
4. “If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.” – Barbara De Angelis
5. “You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
6. “For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” – Carl Sagan
7. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
8. “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” – Charles Dickens
9. “Love alone can rekindle life.” – Henri Frederic Amiel
10. “Love doesn’t make the world go around. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones

“Love doesn’t make the world go around. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones

1. “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
2. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust
3. “Nobody has ever measured — not even poets — how much love the human heart can hold.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
4. “Never love anybody that treats you like you’re ordinary.” – Oscar Wilde
5. “Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.” – Joan Crawford
6. “If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.” – Kahlil Gibran
7. “Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.” – James Baldwin
8. “There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.” – Dodie Smith

“There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.” – Dodie Smith

1. “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” – Bertrand Russell
2. “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love.” – Sophocles
3. “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
4. “It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.” – E. M. Forster
5. “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” – Maya Angelou
6. “A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” – Kurt Vonnegut
7. “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
8. “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” – Oscar Wilde

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” – Oscar Wilde

1. “Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.” – Leo Tolstoy
2. “Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.” – Mitch Albom
3. “Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.” – E. E. Cummings

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The Meaning of Life

What is the meaning of life? That is a question we aren’t sure can really be answered fully. But a good way to describe life is to find meaning in everything you do, learn to love every aspect of your daily routine, and embrace its seasons. Put simply: You to understand “your why” behind everything that you do.

Aristotle said, “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim, and end of human existence.” The following inspirational quotes about life may be just what you need today:

1. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn
2. ​“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”– Franklin D. Roosevelt
3. ​“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”– Voltaire
4. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” – Oprah Winfrey

1. “There is no life as complete as the life that is lived by choice.” – Shad Helmstetter
2. ​“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”– George Bernard Shaw
3. “No one ever finds life worth living – one has to make it worth living.” – Winston Churchill
4. ​“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”– Abraham Lincoln

​“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”– Abraham Lincoln

1. ​“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”– Les Brown
2. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde
3. ​“Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.”– Dale Carnegie
4. ​“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.”– Alexander Graham Bell
5. ​“An unexamined life is not worth living.”– Socrates
6. ​“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn

“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn

1. ​“You can never plan the future by the past.”– Edmund Burke
2. ​“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.”– Dennis P. Kimbro
3. ​“At the end of their lives, people assess how they’ve done not in terms of their income but in terms of their spirit, and I beg you to do the same, even if those who came before sometimes failed to do so.”– Anna Quindlen
4. “Life is much more fun if you live it in the spirit of play and collaboration, working with instead of against others.” – Wally Amos
5. ​“Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.”– Vivian Komori
6. ​“In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”– Robert Frost
7. ​“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.”– W. M. Lewis

“​The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.”– W. M. Lewis

1. “Almost all of the research strongly supports the benefits of using humor to maximize living.” – Mary Kay Morrison
2. ​“Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.”– Denis Waitley
3. ​“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”– Vince Lombardi

Quotes on Loving Life

One of the sad things in life is that we don’t live our life backward, Benjamin Button style. How great would it be to couple the wisdom of age with the energy of youth by living backward?

Unfortunately, that is not the way things work.

In life, we gain important pieces of wisdom through experience and practicing a few of the 23 strategies for daily self-improvement.

All that said, there is a lot of wisdom that can be found by looking at quotes from people who have learned to love life.  Here are a few of our favorites:

1. “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. “How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?” – Robert Frost
3. “The problem is that when you get it, you’re too damned old to do anything about it.”​– Jimmy Connors
4. “Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.”​ – Briane Rathbone

1. “All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.”– Ming-Dao Deng
2. “You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.” – Mary Tyler Moore
3. “…talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.”– Patrick Süskind

“…talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.”– Patrick Süskind

1. “People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.” ​– Eleanor Roosevelt
2. “Nothing ever becomes real ’til it is experienced.” – John Keats
3. “He who has a way to live can bear almost anyhow.”​– Friedrich Nietzsche
4. “I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.”– Thomas Carlyle
5. “I am not what happened to me; I am what I choose to become.”– C.G. Jung
6. “Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience, and being persistent.” – Billy Graham
7. “Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” ​– Auguste Rodin

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” ​– Auguste Rodin

1. “People never learn anything by being told; they have to find out for themselves.”– Paulo Coelho
2. “Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”– John Gardner
3. ​“Life isn’t sure; life is scary. It doesn’t mean you stop living it.”– Susan May Warren
4. “Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later.” – Bob Goff
5. ​“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for a newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
6. “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.”– Stephen Chbosky
7. “Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.”– Pete Seeger
8. “I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.”– Harold Kushner

“I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.”– Harold Kushner

1. “Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”– William Faulkner

The Meaning of Friendship

One thing that life experiences teach us is that you never get “something for nothing”.

Even when you are only dealing with yourself, having some sort of a reason for doing an action is integral to the success of that action. Perhaps you can think of it as “bribing yourself”.

To see what I’m talking about, check out these 155 Methods of Rewarding Yourself.

Love is another area where time and experience bring wisdom. Love is something most people are looking for, either directly or indirectly.

The following wise quotes talk about the importance of forming lifelong friendships that enrich and enhance your daily routine. In essence, when you have great friends, you’ll surround yourself with great conversations where you can know one another on a deep level.    

When discovering the real meaning of friendship, you need to realize that the friendship goes beyond simply sharing your time together; it is sharing long-lasting time together while developing a meaningful connection.

However, it is also important to remember that friendship can mean different things to different people, but it is all around inspiring as you will see by all of the inspiring quotes we have included below.

[Feeling Lonely and Friendless. See that you are not alone with these quotes.]

​Quotes About Friendship ​

1. ​“Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time, we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.” – Ally Condie
2. ​“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.” – Amy Poehler
3. ​“One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.​” – Clifton Fadiman

1. ​“Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.” – Oscar Wilde
2. “Make a friend when you don’t need one.” – Jamaican Proverb
3. ​“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” – Jim Morrison
4. “No friendship is an accident.” – O. Henry
5. ​“Friends are God’s way of taking care of us.” – Author unknown
6. ​“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” – David Tyson

“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” – David Tyson

1. ​“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” – Arnold H. Glasgow
2. “The best mirror is an old friend.” – George Herbert
3. “Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.” – Miles Franklin
4. “Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” – Euripides

Some of these quotes on friendship are wonderful. In some ways, I feel good friendship can be as important as love. Actually, friendship can be a form of love itself.

When it comes to habits, one of the most important aspects of friendship is the “mirror” a good friend can provide, like in the George Herbert wise friendship quote above.

This “mirror” is essentially accountability and is one of the single most powerful tools for achieving success with your habits. Find out more about accountability and what it can do for you here.

Final Thoughts on Wise Quotes About Love

Love is all around us!  Whether it’s your partner, family, friends, or even the activities you enjoy on a deep level, you can find plenty of examples of this powerful emotion.  Hopefully, these love quotes inspired you and gave you something to think about.

And if you like these quotes, then be sure to check out the others that we have:

• 76 Inspiring Hard Work Quotes to Help You Get the Job Done
• 85 Quotes About Being Yourself
• Success Quotes from the Most Successful People in History
• Quotes About Success to Help You Achieve Your Dreams
• 41 Songs About Loving Yourself for Who You Are
• 13 Tips on How to Love Yourself More

Thanks for checking out this wisdom, love, and friendship quote post.  I would appreciate it if you would save your favorite quote on your “go-to” social media platform. And hope you are having a wonderful, loving day!

Finally, if you want to use these quotes to make a lasting change to your life, then watch this free video that details the 7-minute habit for planning your day to focus on what’s truly important to you..