67 Love quotes and sayings that inspire positive thoughts

67 Love quotes and sayings 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, that you can share with your friends, family, and loved ones.

1. Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. - Mother Teresa

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. There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much. - Mother Teresa

5. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. - Erich Fromm

6. Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people. - Mother Teresa

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.

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. - Author 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