In love, there are mountains and valleys we need to get through before we find the right one. I believe that the keys to having a healthy relationship are patience, communication, loyalty, fun, and love. Being deeply loved by someone gives us strength and courage to make impossible things possible.
It might be difficult to maintain a high level of inspiration especially when the journey gets tough. However, it is important to develop the habit of being patient. So, today I would like to share inspirational quotes and sayings about love coming from different people, culture, and time.
1. ìYou can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.î óGautama Buddha
2. ìLove is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.î óMartin Luther King, Jr.
3. ìLove recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.î óMaya Angelou
4. ìLove and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.îóDalai Lama
5. ìLove is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisibleóit cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.î óBarbara de Angelis
6. ìThe best proof of love is trust.î óJoyce Brothers
7. ìThe most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.îó Morrie Schwartz
8. ìIt takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.î
ó Eleanor Roosevelt
9. ìYour task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.î ó Rumi
10. ìLove is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.îó Lao Tzu
11. ìIf I had a flower for every time I thought of youÖ I could walk through my garden forever.îó Alfred Tennyson
12. ìKeep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.îó Oscar Wilde
13. ìLots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.îó Oprah Winfrey
14. ìLove many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.î ó Vincent Van Gogh
15. ìThe best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. Thatís what I hope to give you forever.îó The Notebook
16. ìLove is what youíve been through with somebody.î ó James Thurber
17. Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we donít know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.îó AnaÔs Nin
18. ìTrue love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.îó Erich Segal
19. ìThe giving of love is an education in itself.îó Eleanor Roosevelt
20. Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.îó Khalil Gibran
21. ìYou know youíre in love when you donít want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.î ó Dr. Seuss
22. ìThe best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.î ó Helen Keller
23. ìThe way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.îó Gilbert K. Chesterton
24. ìI love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.îó Roy Croft
25. ìIt is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.î ? Friedrich Nietzsche
26. ìThere is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.î ? Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
27. ìLove is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.î ? Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
28. ìLove looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.î ? William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Nightís Dream
29. ìYou donít love someone because theyíre perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that theyíre not.î ? Jodi Picoult, My Sisterís Keeper
30. ìThe real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.î ? Marilyn Monroe
31. ìWhen someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.î ? Jess C. Scott, The Intern
32. ìItís better to have loved and lost. Than never to have loved at all.î ? Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam
33. ìLove is needing someone. Love is putting up with someoneís bad qualities because they somehow complete you.î ? Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
34. ìLet your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.î ñ Malagasy Proverb
35. ìOne is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.î ? Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
36. ìNever love anyone who treats you like youíre ordinary.î ? Oscar Wilde
37. ìDo I love you because youíre beautiful, Or are you beautiful because I love you?î ? Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella
38. ìThis is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.î ? Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
39. ìEvery 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.î ? Plato
40. ìA guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each otherÖMaybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe foreverî ? Dave Matthews Band
41. ìThe more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!î ? Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
42. ìThey say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.î ? Tom Bodett
43. ìLove 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.î ñ 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (NIV)
44. ìLove doesnít just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.î ? Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
45. ìIf you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know heróthen donít let her go.î ? Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle
46. ìIf you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they donít, they never were.î ? Kahlil Gibran
47. ìA womanís heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.î ? Max Lucado
48. ìLove does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.î ? James Baldwin
49. ìWhen love is not madness it is not love.î ? Pedro CalderÛn de la Barca
50. ìLove is like the wind, you canít see it but you can feel it.î ? Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
51. ìBeing deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.î
? Lao Tzu
52. ìGravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.î ? Albert Einstein
53. ìLove is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.î ñ Author Unknown
54. ìYou donít have to go looking for love when itís where you come from.î ñ Werner Erhard
55. ìTrue love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.î ñ FranÁois, duc de La Rochefoucauld
56. ìHate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.î ñ Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neuroticís Notebook, 1966
57. ìWho, being loved, is poor?î ñ Oscar Wilde
58. ìYou really shouldnít say ìI love youî unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.î ñ Author unknown
59. ìLove is a game that two can play and both win.î ñ Eva Gabor
60. ìLove is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.î ñ Bruce Lee
61. ìWe waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.î ñ Tom Robbins
62. ìLove is not blind ñ it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.î ñ Julius Gordon
63. ìItís so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you.î ñ Author Unknown
64. ìLove means nothing in tennis, but itís everything in life.î ñ Author Unknown
65. ìAnd now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.î ñ 1 Corinthians 13:13 (NIV)