Love, romance, roses, and chocolate covered marshmallow hearts, all of my favorite things! I scoured the internet again to bring you 50 of the Greatest Love Quotes of All Time.
1. You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. ~ Dr. Seuss
2. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~ Lao Tzu
3. A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. ~ Elbert Hubbar
4. Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
5. If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever. ~ Alfred Tennyson
6. Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. ~ Oscar Wilde
7. For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love. ~ Carl Sagan
8. If music be the food of love, play on. ~ William Shakespeare
9. Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary. ~ Oscar Wilde
10. The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
11. 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
12. I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart). ~ ee Cummings
13. You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. ~ Oscar Wilde
14. The giving of love is an education in itself. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
15. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ~ Robert Frost
16. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close. ~ Pablo Neruda
17. Love is a friendship set to music. ~ Joseph Campbell
18. There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
19. Love is real, real is love. ~ John Lennon
20. Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time. ~ Maya Angelou
21. To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
22. Piglet: “How do you spell ‘love’?” Winnie the Pooh: “You don’t spell it…you feel it.” ~ A.A. Milne, Winnie the Poo
23. The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. ~ Audrey Hepburn
24. Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.” ~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet
25. Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.” ~ Albert Einstein
26. 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
27. Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. ~ Plato
28. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
29. 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
30. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. ~ Oscar Wilde
31. So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you. ~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
32. Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. ~ Anais Nin
33. Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another. ~ Thomas Merton
34. When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. ~ Nora Ephron, “When Harry Met Sally”
35. Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
36. To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. ~ David Viscott
37. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. ~ Helen Keller
38. When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before. ~ Blaise Pascal
39. To love another person is to see the face of God. ~ Victor Hugo
40. Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering. ~ Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
41. One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving. ~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
42. 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
43. The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love. ~ Henry Miller
44. He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can. He isn’t going to quote poetry, he’s not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break. Don’t hurt him, don’t change him, and don’t expect for more than he can give. Don’t analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when he’s not there. Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you. ~Bob Marley
45. We loved with a love that was more than love.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe
46. He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” ~ Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
47. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. ~ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
48. I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea. ~ Nicholas Sparks
49. 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
50. True love is rare, and it’s the only thing that gives life real meaning. ~ Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle
Now It’s Your Turn
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