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50 of the World’s Best Quotes on Love

2013-02-04 By Monica 4 Comments

Best Love Quotes

Valentine’s Day is my absolute favorite holiday. From the gourmet chocolates to the roses to spending time with loved ones, Valentine’s Day is a wonderful way to feel and be in love. Here’s my gift to you – 50 of the World’s Best Quotes on Love. If I missed yours, please share it in the comments below. Happy Valentine’s Day!

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

2.) “We accept the love we think we deserve.” – Stephen Chbosky

3.) “A simple ‘I love you’ means more than money.” – Frank Sinatra

4.) “Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

5.) “Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.” – John Lennon

6.) “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse

7.) “When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.” – Rumi

8.) “Where there is great love, there are always miracles.” – Willa Cather

9.) “To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.” – Bill Wilson

10.) “Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.” – E.E. Cummings

11.) “Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.” – Dalai Lama XIV

12.) “In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.” – Rumi

13.) “If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn’t love you as much as I do in a single day.” – Emily Brontë

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

15.) “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou

16.) “When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” – William Shakespeare

17.) “Love is a friendship set to music.” – E. Joseph Cossman

18.) 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

19.) “When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.” – Albert Einstein

20.) “You don’t marry someone you can live with – you marry the person who you cannot live without.” – Unknown Author

21.) “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

22.) “Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.” – Lao Tzu

23.) “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.” – Alfred Tennyson

24.) “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, The Alchemist

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

26.) “You are the answer to every prayer I’ve offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don’t know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.” – Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

27.) “There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.” – John Lennon

28.) “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that’s what you’ve given me. That’s what I’d hoped to give you forever” – Nicholas Sparks

29.) “So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

30.) “One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.” – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

31.) “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

32.) “Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all.” – Ernest Hemingway

33.) “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.” – William Shakespeare

34.) “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa

35.) “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.” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

36.) “There is no remedy for love, but to love more.” – Thoreau

37.) “The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.” – Marilyn Monroe

38.) “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu

39.) “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert A. Heinlein

40.) “To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.” – Madonna

41.) “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” – Mother Teresa

42.) “People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.” – Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

43.) “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, True Love

44.) “Love, having no geography, has no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.” – Truman Capote

45.) “The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” -Rumi

46.) “Love must be learned, again and again; there is no end to it.” – Katherine Anne Porter

47.) “Love is, above all, a gift of oneself.” – Jean Anouilh

48.) “You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.” – Sam Keen

49.) “And think not you can guide the course of love. For love, if it finds you worthy, shall guide your course.” -Kahlil Gibran

50.) “People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.” – Douglas Yates

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About Monica

Monica is a health and wellness coach and essential oil enthusiast. She is also the author of Design Your Dream Life: See It, Plan It, Live It! Her work has appeared on Huffington Post, Elephant Journal, and on Startup Nation. Monica practices yoga, and enjoys animals, sushi, chai tea lattes, foreign films, and walking on the beach. She lives with her husband and two dogs in the fun and amazing city of Portland, Oregon.

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  1. Sheri Kaye Hoff says

    2013-02-21 at 8:03 pm

    Thank you for the great quotes

    Reply
    • Monica says

      2013-02-23 at 4:34 am

      Thanks Sheri and thank you for visiting my blog 🙂

      Reply
  2. Kim says

    2013-05-15 at 2:41 pm

    A very nice list. I’d like to get one of these texted to me daily as a reminder of how important love is.

    Reply
  3. Monica says

    2013-05-16 at 6:07 pm

    Good idea Kim, I’ll have to look at that.

    Reply

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