100 Wise Quotes About Love That Will Lift Your Spirit

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According to a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center, around 88% of Americans believe that love is a crucial aspect of a successful marriage or long-term relationship, which highlights the importance of love in our lives.

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The American Psychological Association reported that a healthy relationship can lower stress levels, enhance overall well-being, and provide a sense of purpose, underscoring the value of love in our lives.

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1. “Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.” – Ralph Connor

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2. “Hate the sin and love the sinner.” – Mahatma Gandhi

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

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4. “You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.” – Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

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5. “When one is truly in love, one not only says it but shows it.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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6. “A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.” – Thomas Carlyle

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7. “True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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8. “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” – Henry David Thoreau

9. “The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

10. “Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.” – Oscar Wilde

11. “The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it. Sometimes love blinds us, other times it lets us see.” – George Bernard Shaw

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12. “If you have it, Love, you don’t need to have anything else, and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter much what else you have.” – James M. Barrie

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13. “This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

14. “To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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15. “Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving.” – Katharine Hepburn

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16. “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.” – Bible (1 Corinthians 13:4)

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

18. “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” – Mother Teresa

19. “Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.” – H. L. Mencken

20. You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.” – Henry Drummond

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Wise Quotes About Love To Bring Back Vitality In Your Life

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21. “I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” — Arthur Rubinstein

22. “Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.” — H. L. Mencken

23. “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”  James A. Baldwin

24.  “What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.” — Pearl Bailey

25.  “Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.” — Joan Crawford

26.  “The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.” — Victor Hugo

27. “The love we give away is the only love we keep.” — Elbert Hubbard

28. “Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.” — William Shakespeare

29. “Where there is love there is life.” — Mahatma Gandhi

30. “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” — Schwartz

Wise Quotes About Love To Appreciate Our Loved Ones

31. “The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It is focused attention.” – Richard Warren

32. “Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball

34. “We are most alive when we’re in love.” – John Updike

33.  “Love is, in fact, an intensification of life, a completeness, a fullness, a wholeness of life.” – Thomas Merton

35.“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

36. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” – William Shakespeare

37. “Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.” – Peter Ustinov

38. “Love in its essence is spiritual fire.” – Seneca

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

40. “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” – Khalil Gibran

Wise Quotes About Love To Warm Your Heart

41. “We grow in love by choosing to serve, share, listen, forgive, etc. Love grows as we choose to act in love towards others.” ― Gregory Brown

42. “Allow yourself love and when you do you will find love in return. Allow yourself to be happy and when you do you will influence others around you.” ― Catherine Pulsifer

43. “To love means loving the unlovable.” ― G. K. Chesterton

44. “All humans respond to kindness and warmth the same way, regardless of age. Respect begets respect. Love begets love.” ― Lovana Yao

45. “Send a drop of love, And feel a loving embrace. It feels so good to feel like, you are in the right place.” ― Julie Hebert

46. “Love, after all, is part work, part play and all about sustaining your commitment to each other over the many years ahead of you.” ― Sarah Riedel

47. “If you truly love someone, you will desire to make the effort to spend quality time with them to get to know them deeper.” ― Robert Woeger

48. “True love is without pride.” ― Patrick T. Gorman

49. “The love and relationship are all about understanding each other and overlooking the different matters, as well as mistakes.” ― Ilene Prat

50. “Love, I would say, is that capacity which enables him to grasp the other human being in his very uniqueness.” ― Victor E. Frankl

Wise Quotes About Love For When You’re in Love

51. “Love is a friendship set to music.” ― Joseph Campbell

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

53. ​“In order to be happy oneself, it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.” ― Theodor Reik

54. “If you would be loved, love and be lovable.” ― Benjamin Franklin

55. “Age does not protect you from love, but love, to some extent, love protects you from age.” ― Jeanne Moreau

56. “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” ― Sarah Dessen

57. “We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.” ― George W. Melville

58. “Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” ― Oliver Wendell Holmes

59. “Everyone in life is gonna hurt you; you just have to figure out which people are worth the pain.” ― Erica Baican

60. “True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” ― Erich Segal

Wise Quotes About Love To Encourage Feelings For Your Special Person

61. “Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” — Nicholas Sparks

62. “Never compare your love life from what you read or watched in a movie. Those are carefully thought about, yours on the good will of fate” ― Bangambiki Habyarimana

63. ​“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.” — Albert Ellis

64. “It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.” — Thomas Mann

65. “True love makes you sleep and dream. But loud reality wakes you up” ― Bangambiki Habyarimana

66. “Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.” — Loretta Young

67. “True love doesn’t come to you it has to be inside you.” — Julia Roberts

68. “Love is a two-way street constantly under construction.” — Carroll Bryant

69. “Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.” — Dorothy Parker

70. “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” — Charles Dickens

Wise Quotes About Love For Any Situation

71. “Love life, live your best life.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita

72. “Love will be safe until the brain wakes up” ― Bangambiki Habyarimana

73. “Men are handicapped in love, either in giving or in receiving. They consider love as a sign of weakness” ― Bangambiki Habyarimana

74. “The greatest law is: love yourself first” ― Bangambiki Habyarimana

75. “If someone can’t forgive, it’s because he does not love” ― Bangambiki Habyarimana

76. “Forgiveness is all about love. Where love abounds, there forgiveness will not tarry” ― Bangambiki Habyarimana

77. “True love stories never have endings.” ― Richard Bach

78. “True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.” ― Honore de Balzac

79. “True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.” ―  Torquato Tasso

80. “Life is a game and true love is a trophy.” ― Rufus Wainwright

Wise Quotes About True Love

81. “Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.” ― Billy Graham

82. “True love brings up everything – you’re allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.” ― Jennifer Aniston

83. “I believe in true love, and I believe in happy endings. And I believe.” ― Christie Brinkley

84. “True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.” ― Bryant H. McGill

85. “True love does not only encompass the things that make you feel good, it also holds you to a standard of accountability.” ― Monica Johnson

86. “Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.” ― Marshall McLuhan

87. “I know the difference between true love and the love of my fans.” ― Gary Coleman

88. “True love is forever.” ― Fabio Lanzoni

89. “True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.” ― Sadhu Vaswani

90. “The course of true love never did run smooth.” ― William Shakespeare

Wise Quotes About Love And Happiness

91. “The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.” ― Gabrielle Roy

92. “And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make.” ― Paul McCartney

93. “Love means to see the one you love happy.” ― Nicholas Sparks

94. “Happiness is only real when shared.” ― Jon Krakaur

95. “Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

96. “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” ― Oscar Wilde

97. “There is my heart, and then there is you, and I’m not sure there is a difference.” — A.R. Asher

98. “There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.” ― George Sand

99. “When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.” — Jess C. Scott

100. “The happiness you feel is in direct proportion with the love you give.” — Oprah Winfrey

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