A List of My Fave Love Quotes

Posted By on Thursday 22nd May 2025

I am no expert on love. I know there are a ton of different types of love: self-love, selfless love, mutual love, unrequited love, unconditional love, platonic love, romantic love, hopeless love, and on, and on. I’m yet on a long road to learn about it all. If you happen to have some wisdom in that department, please feel free to share!

However, in my journey to learn about love, I have found these wonderful quotes that have shed some light onto this mysterious concept. Some of these are funny, some of them are profound, some of them are quite beautiful. It definitely stirs up the hopeless romantic in me.

I found all these quotes in a great book of inspiring quotes called “One Year Wiser”.

I hope that it will give you some inspiration and feelings of love. Enjoy!

Love can be expressed in many ways! You can see that here in a souvenir shop in Barcelona, Spain.

1.Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. – Martin Luther King Jr.
2.We can do no great things – only small things with great love. – Mother Teresa
3.There is no remedy for love but to love more. – Henry David Thoreau
4.If a thing loves, it is infinite. – William Blake
5.Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere, they’re in each other all along. – Rumi
6.It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you. – Roald Dahl
7.Love dies only when growth stops. – Pearl S. Buck
8.Love one another and you will be happy. It is as simple and as difficult as that. – Michael Leunig
9.Life must be rich and full of loving — it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone. – Jack Kerouac
10.We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present. – Marianne Williamson
11.The worst prison would be a closed heart. – Pope John Paul II
12.The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. – George Washington Burnap
13.All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt. – Charles M. Schultz
14.The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. – Victor Hugo
15.One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
16.Love is the only thing we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy. – Louisa May Alcott
17.One who sees all beings in one’s self and one’s self in all beings knows no hatred. – Isa Upanishad 6
18.True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist, nor can it be hidden where it truly does. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
19.The heart that gives gathers. – Marianne Moore
20.In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gratefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Jack Kornfield
21.To be loved means to be recognized as existing. – Thich Nhat Hanh
22.To be loved, be lovable. – Ovid
23.Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture your heart. – Native American Proverb
24.Each time you judge yourself, you break your own heart. – Swami Kripalwanandji
25.Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. – Dalai Lama XIV
26.Every day, priests minutely examine the dharma and endlessly chant complicated sutras. Before doing that, though, they should learn how to read the love letters sent by the wind and rain, the snow and moon. – Ikkyu
27.I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple. – Rumi
28.One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. – Virginia Woolf
29.We lived, felt dawn, loved and were loved, and now we lie. – John McCrae
30.Love is a game that two can play and both win. – Eva Gabor
31.The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. – Bertrand Russel
32.He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. – St. Basil of Caesare
33.There is always something left to love. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
34.I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. – Martin Luther King Jr.