Love Quotes

“The heart of man deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.”

— Book of Proverbs

“Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.”

— David Wilkerson

“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.”

— Book of Proverbs

“We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Love is an endless act of forgiveness.”

— Beyonce Knowles

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”

— David Viscott

“True love stories never have endings.”

— Richard Bach

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

— William Shakespeare

“Love is the absence of judgment”

— Dalai Lama

“Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.”

— Sun Tzu

“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”

— Steve Jobs

“The love we give away is the only love we keep.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

— William Shakespeare

“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 does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.”

— George Washington

“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.”

— Goethe

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.”

— Lucille Ball

“Emotions are the languages of the soul.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

“Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.”

— Albert Camus

“Love is not consolation. It is light.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

— Albert Schweitzer

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

— Dalai Lama

“Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.”

— John Lennon

“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

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

— Paulo Coelho

“To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.”

— John Stuart Mill

“In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”

— Paul McCartney

“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.”

— George Eliot

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

— Buddha

“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.”

— Pele

“Without passion, you cannot do anything.”

— Anonymous

“Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.”

— Parker Palmer

“I am thankful for a lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing because it means I have a home…. I am thankful for the piles of laundry and ironing because it means my loved ones are nearby.”

— Nancie J. Carmody

“Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”

— Ram Dass

“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 is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods.”

— Plato

“Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“We can't command our love, but we can our actions.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“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

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.”

— Lucille Ball

“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”

— George Sand

“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering.”

— Bruce Lee

“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

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

— Confucius

“Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.”

— Loretta Young

“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”

— Mother Teresa

“Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one's watching.”

— Satchel Paige

“Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.”

— James Thurber

“We are all fools in love.”

— Jane Austen

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Becoming acquainted with yourself is a price well worth paying for the love that will really address you.”

— Marianne Williamson

“Love is not about how many days, weeks or months you’ve been together, it’s all about how much you love each other every day.”

— Unknown

“He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.”

— Henri Matisse

“I teach others because I love learning.”

— Aristotle

“Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.”

— Petrarch

“Emotions aren't that hard to borrow when love's the word, and you follow.”

— Neil Diamond

“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.”

— Hubert H. Humphrey

“It is love alone that gives worth to all things.”

— Teresa of Avila