We all have a desire to love and to be loved. Here are some of my favorite inspirational love quotes. I trust these quotes will inspire you and that your love will blossom!
“A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself – to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.”
– Leo F. Buscaglia
“The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.”
– Anais Nin
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
– Victor Hugo
“Above all things I believe in love. Love is like oxygen. Love is a many-splendored thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love!”
– From the movie Moulin Rouge
“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
“All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”
– Leo Tolstoy
“Love is my religion – I could die for it.”
– John Keats
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Love is the beauty of the soul.”
– Saint Augustine
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet…”
– Plato
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
– Bertrand Russell
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
– Lao Tzu
“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”
– Mother Teresa
“Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.”
– John Lennon
“Do you love me because I’m beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?”
– Oscar Hammerstein
“Where there is love there is life.”
– Mohandas Gandhi
“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it… It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.”
– Erica Jong
“I am so glad that you are here… It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.”
– Goethe
“To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.”
– Henry Drummond
“I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn’t matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.”
– Julia Roberts
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
– Zora Neale Hurston
“I have you. A lover and a friend. You are everything I need. You are the sun, the air I breathe. Without you, life wouldn’t be the same. Please don’t ever go away. And if you go, then don’t forget to take me with you.”
– Basia
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
– Victor Hugo
More inspirational love quotes will be added on a regular basis.
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