Famous and positive quotes about love
1. 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
2. Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein TWEET THIS
3. Love is a better teacher than duty.
Albert Einstein
4. The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
Albert Ellis
5. If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.
Alfred Tennyson
6. ’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
7. Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
Anaïs Nin
8. Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
Andre Breton
9. People should fall in love with their eyes closed.
Andy Warhol
10. Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
11. Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
12. We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Benjamin Disraeli
13. If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
Benjamin Franklin TWEET THIS
14. When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
Blaise Pascal
15. For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Carl Sagan
16. I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. . . . I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. . . . I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.
Charles Dickens
17. All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.
Charles Schulz
18. Love is to love someone for who they are, who they were, and who they will be.
Chris Moore
19. You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
David Levesque
20. Love me and the world is mine.
David Reed
21. To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott
22. Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.
David Wilkerson
23. You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
Dr. Seuss
24. The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Elbert Hubbard
25. It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
Eleanor Roosevelt
26. The giving of love is an education in itself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
27. Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Elizabeth Browning
28. Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Emanuel Swedenborg
29. Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.".
Erich Fromm
30. True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
Erich Segal
31. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
George Sands
32. Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Germaine de Staël
33. The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
34. The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
35. The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.
Henry Miller
36. If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Herman Hesse
37. The more one judges, the less one loves.
Honore de Balzac
38. A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore de Balzac
39. A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous.
Ingrid Bergmen
40. We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Jacques Maritain
41. Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James Baldwin
42. Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
James Thurber
43. In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
Janos Arnay TWEET THIS
44. Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau
45. Paradise is always where love dwells.
Johann Paul Friedrich Richter TWEET THIS
46. We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe TWEET THIS
47. Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
48. True love is the joy of life.
John Clarke
49. Come live with me, and be my love, and we will some new pleasures prove of golden sands, and crystal brooks, with silken lines, and silver hooks.
John Donne
50. We are most alive when we’re in love.
John Updike
51. Love is a friendship set to music.
Joseph Campbell TWEET THIS
52. The best proof of love is trust.
Joyce Brothers
53. 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
54. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
Kent M. Keith
55. Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; for love is sufficient unto love.
Khalil Gibran
56. Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Khalil Gibran
57. To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
58. Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Lao Tzu
59. Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Leo Buscaglia
60. Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.
Leo Buscaglia
61. Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
62. I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Martin Luther King Jr.
63. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
Martin Luther King Jr.
64. Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Martin Luther King Jr.
65. Love is not a matter of counting the years . . . But making the years count.
Michelle Amand
66. Hate leaves ugly scars; love leaves beautiful ones.
Mignon McLaughlin
67. In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Mignon McLaughlin
68. The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz
69. We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
70. Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa
71. I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa
72. Don’t look for big things, just do small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
73. I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
Nicholas Sparks
74. Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde
75. Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde
76. Fortune and love favor the brave.
Ovid
77. At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet
Plato
78. My true love hath my heart, and I have his
Philip Sydney
79. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke
80. He who wants to do good knocks at the gate. He who loves finds the door open.
Rabindranath Tagore
81. True love stories never have endings.
Richard Bach
82. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost
83. Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.
Robert Fulghum
84. Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert Heinlein
85. I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love.
Robert Tizon
86. For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Rosemonde Gerard
87. I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.
Roy Croft
88. Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Rumi
89. You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Sam Keen
90. I have found the one whom my soul loves.
Song of Solomon
91. Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
St. Augustine
92. Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.
Swedish Proverb
93. Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Vincent Van Gogh
94. Love those who love you.
Voltaire
95. Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire
96. Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.
Wayne Dyer
97. To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
William Makepeace Thackeray
98. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
William Shakespeare TWEET THIS
99. The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
William Wordsworth
Bonus Quote. I just tweeted to say I love you.
Juha Salmela TWEET THIS
ps. See also list of words that can be used to describe love and loved one. ♥
