95 Short quotes about love that inspire positive thoughts. Here are the best quotes about love from the famous authors that will enlighten you about love, inspirational love quotes that were written and passed on many decades and even centuries to learn more about the different kinds of love, its meaning, and its benefits that can positively change your life and others as well, short love quotes and sayings that you can share with your friends, family, and loved ones.
1. Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it. - Nicholas Sparks
2. What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience. - St. Francis de Sales
3. To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. - Alphonse de Lamartine
4. It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight. - Vladimir Nabokov
5. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. - Erich Fromm
6. To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything. - T. Tolis
7. Frequently people think compassion and love are merely sentimental. No! They are very demanding. If you are going to be compassionate, be prepared for action. - Archbishop Desmond Tutu
8. Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now and to go on caring even through times that may bring us pain. - Fred Rogers
9. Love isn’t blind; it just only sees what matters. - William Curry
10. If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? - Stephen Levine
11. If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one. - Mother Teresa
12. We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. - Sam Keen
13. Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty, it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things. - Albert Einstein
14. Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. - Charles Dickens
15. If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world. - Emmet Fox
16. Treat others as ends, never as means. - Dag Hammerskjold
17. For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. - Judy Garland
18. Love in its essence is spiritual fire. - Seneca
19. A baby is born with a need to be loved and never outgrows it. - Frank A. Clark
20. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. - Tom Robbins
21. Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. - Antoine de SaintExupery
22. Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. - Saint Thomas Aquinas
23. Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it. - Maurice Chevalier
24. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. - Robert Frost
25. Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. - Saint Augustine
26. When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults. - Elizabeth Cameron
27. Persistent love--like the dripping of water on a rock--can wear away a person's resistance. It's nearly impossible to stay angry with or emotionally distant from someone who unconditionally loves you. - Gary Smalley
28. To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. - David Viscott
29. True love does not come by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. - Anonymous
30. Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken. - Karl A. Menninger
31. If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. - Bob Hope
32. Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse. - Unknown
33. We can only learn to love by loving. - Iris Murdoch
34. Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
35. To love is to stop comparing. - Bernard Grasset
36. If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were. - Kahlil Gibran
37. One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. - Sophocles
38. When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. - John Ruskin
39. Love isn't like a reservoir. You'll never drain it dry. It's much more like a natural spring. The longer and the farther it flows, the stronger and the deeper and the clearer it becomes. - Eddie Cantor
40. What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. - Pearl Bailey
41. Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them and while their hearts can be thrilled by them. - Henry Ward Beecher
42. A good criterion for measuring your success in life is the number of people you have made happy. - Robert J. Lumsden
43. Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind! - Henri Frederic Amiel
44. Love means loving the unlovable--or it is no virtue at all. - G.K. Chesterton
45. Do what you love, love what you do, and deliver more than you promise. - Harvey Mackay
46. When we grow old, there can only be one regret: not to have given enough of ourselves. - Eleonora Duse
47. After the verb to Love, to Help is the most beautiful verb in the world. - Bertha von Suttner
48. Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. - George Eliot
49. Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
50. To love is to take delight in the happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness one's own. - Gottfried Leibniz
51. When you are behaving as if you love someone, you will presently come to love him. - C. S. Lewis
52. Treasure the love that you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished. - Og Mandino
53. You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. - Henry Drummond
54. Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
55. To find a person who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness. - Robert Brault
56. Love is an attachment to something or someone that eventually welds itself to the heart... - Doug Firebaugh
57. O tell her, brief is life but love is long. - Lord Alfred Tennyson
58. Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart. - Henry Ward Beecher
59. Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get... Only with what you are expected to give... Which is everything. - Katharine Hepburn
60. Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work. - Anna Quindlen
61. Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life. - Leo Buscaglia
62. You are obliged to love your neighbor as yourself, and loving him, you ought to help him spiritually, with prayer, counseling him with words, and assisting him both spiritually and temporally, according to the need in which he may be, at least with your goodwill if you have nothing else. - Catharine of Siena
63. Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. - Mother Teresa
64. A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. - Thomas Carlyle
65. Love is not finding someone you can live with, it's finding someone you can't live without. - Rafael Ortiz
66. There never was any heart truly great and gracious, that was not also tender and compassionate. - Robert South
67. I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. - Mother Teresa
68. Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. - Lucille Ball
69. A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. - Max Muller
70. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. - William Shakespeare
71. The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. - Morrie Schwartz
72. A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. - Brendan Francis
73. You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not. - Jodi Picoult
74. Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey. - Lord Byron
75. Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to. - Tammy Wynette
76. When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable. - Jess C. Scott
77. 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
78. We accept the love we think we deserve. - Stephen Chbosky
79. One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving. - Paulo Coelho
80. Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. - Khalil Gibran
81. First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. - George Bernard Shaw
82. Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you. - Sarah Dessen
83. The art of love is largely the art of persistence. - Albert Ellis
84. Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted. - Rabindranath Tagore
85. The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much! - Jane Austen
86. Love does not dominate; it cultivates. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
87. When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget. - Helen Hunt Jackson
88. Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful. - Milan Kundera
89. 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
90. Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value. - Thornton Wilder
91. Love is so short, forgetting is so long. - Pablo Neruda
92. We are most alive when we're in love. - John Updike
93. And remember, as it was written, to love another person is to see the face of God. - Les Miserables
94. There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. - Friedrich Nietzsche
95. Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself. - Andre Breton
1. Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it. - Nicholas Sparks
2. What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience. - St. Francis de Sales
3. To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. - Alphonse de Lamartine
4. It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight. - Vladimir Nabokov
5. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. - Erich Fromm
6. To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything. - T. Tolis
7. Frequently people think compassion and love are merely sentimental. No! They are very demanding. If you are going to be compassionate, be prepared for action. - Archbishop Desmond Tutu
8. Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now and to go on caring even through times that may bring us pain. - Fred Rogers
9. Love isn’t blind; it just only sees what matters. - William Curry
10. If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? - Stephen Levine
11. If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one. - Mother Teresa
12. We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. - Sam Keen
13. Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty, it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things. - Albert Einstein
14. Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. - Charles Dickens
15. If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world. - Emmet Fox
16. Treat others as ends, never as means. - Dag Hammerskjold
17. For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. - Judy Garland
18. Love in its essence is spiritual fire. - Seneca
19. A baby is born with a need to be loved and never outgrows it. - Frank A. Clark
20. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. - Tom Robbins
21. Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. - Antoine de SaintExupery
22. Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. - Saint Thomas Aquinas
23. Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it. - Maurice Chevalier
24. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. - Robert Frost
25. Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. - Saint Augustine
26. When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults. - Elizabeth Cameron
27. Persistent love--like the dripping of water on a rock--can wear away a person's resistance. It's nearly impossible to stay angry with or emotionally distant from someone who unconditionally loves you. - Gary Smalley
28. To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. - David Viscott
29. True love does not come by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. - Anonymous
30. Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken. - Karl A. Menninger
31. If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. - Bob Hope
32. Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse. - Unknown
33. We can only learn to love by loving. - Iris Murdoch
34. Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
35. To love is to stop comparing. - Bernard Grasset
36. If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were. - Kahlil Gibran
37. One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. - Sophocles
38. When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. - John Ruskin
39. Love isn't like a reservoir. You'll never drain it dry. It's much more like a natural spring. The longer and the farther it flows, the stronger and the deeper and the clearer it becomes. - Eddie Cantor
40. What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. - Pearl Bailey
41. Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them and while their hearts can be thrilled by them. - Henry Ward Beecher
42. A good criterion for measuring your success in life is the number of people you have made happy. - Robert J. Lumsden
43. Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind! - Henri Frederic Amiel
44. Love means loving the unlovable--or it is no virtue at all. - G.K. Chesterton
45. Do what you love, love what you do, and deliver more than you promise. - Harvey Mackay
46. When we grow old, there can only be one regret: not to have given enough of ourselves. - Eleonora Duse
47. After the verb to Love, to Help is the most beautiful verb in the world. - Bertha von Suttner
48. Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. - George Eliot
49. Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
50. To love is to take delight in the happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness one's own. - Gottfried Leibniz
51. When you are behaving as if you love someone, you will presently come to love him. - C. S. Lewis
52. Treasure the love that you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished. - Og Mandino
53. You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. - Henry Drummond
54. Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
55. To find a person who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness. - Robert Brault
56. Love is an attachment to something or someone that eventually welds itself to the heart... - Doug Firebaugh
57. O tell her, brief is life but love is long. - Lord Alfred Tennyson
58. Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart. - Henry Ward Beecher
59. Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get... Only with what you are expected to give... Which is everything. - Katharine Hepburn
60. Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work. - Anna Quindlen
61. Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life. - Leo Buscaglia
62. You are obliged to love your neighbor as yourself, and loving him, you ought to help him spiritually, with prayer, counseling him with words, and assisting him both spiritually and temporally, according to the need in which he may be, at least with your goodwill if you have nothing else. - Catharine of Siena
63. Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. - Mother Teresa
64. A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. - Thomas Carlyle
65. Love is not finding someone you can live with, it's finding someone you can't live without. - Rafael Ortiz
66. There never was any heart truly great and gracious, that was not also tender and compassionate. - Robert South
67. I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. - Mother Teresa
68. Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. - Lucille Ball
69. A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. - Max Muller
70. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. - William Shakespeare
71. The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. - Morrie Schwartz
72. A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. - Brendan Francis
73. You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not. - Jodi Picoult
74. Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey. - Lord Byron
75. Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to. - Tammy Wynette
76. When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable. - Jess C. Scott
77. 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
78. We accept the love we think we deserve. - Stephen Chbosky
79. One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving. - Paulo Coelho
80. Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. - Khalil Gibran
81. First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. - George Bernard Shaw
82. Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you. - Sarah Dessen
83. The art of love is largely the art of persistence. - Albert Ellis
84. Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted. - Rabindranath Tagore
85. The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much! - Jane Austen
86. Love does not dominate; it cultivates. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
87. When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget. - Helen Hunt Jackson
88. Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful. - Milan Kundera
89. 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
90. Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value. - Thornton Wilder
91. Love is so short, forgetting is so long. - Pablo Neruda
92. We are most alive when we're in love. - John Updike
93. And remember, as it was written, to love another person is to see the face of God. - Les Miserables
94. There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. - Friedrich Nietzsche
95. Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself. - Andre Breton
95 Short quotes about love that inspire positive thoughts
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