The best love quotes (in my opinion!)
Looking for the best love quotes out there? I've taken these from a variety of sources.
Note that you will find no repeats of these, on other quotes pages on this site. Though the underlying topic of each page of this site is love and soulmates, I want each page to be special and unique.
So these aren't relationship quotes or heartbreak quotes and aren't really soulmate quotes. They're love plain and simple, words on the universal threads of light that connect us all and inspire millions to marvel at its brilliance.
Love inside ourselves of course, is where soulmate love starts. So what better way to start than to reflect upon the insightful words of others as we ponder the complexity of our own hearts.
So there you have it! With a drum roll please, here are...
The best love quotes (in my humble opinion)
All you need is love. - John Lennon
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is a verb - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. - Jimi Hendrix reciting one of my best love quotes
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. - Antione de Saint-Exupery
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H.L. Mencken
We can do no great things. Only small things with great love. - Mother Teresa
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. - Lao-Tzu
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. - Oscar Wilde
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life. - Smiley Blanton
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. - Pearl Bailey
Love is letting go of fear. - Gerald Jampolsky reciting one of my best love quotes
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. - Jeanne Moreau
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it - Dr. Karl Menninger
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. - James Baldwin
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is. - The Course of Miracles
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. - Diane Ackerman
Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting. - Mother Theresa reciting one of my best love quotes
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. - Dalai Lama
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is the first gift, love is the second. - Marge Piercy
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. - Jean Anouilh
Love cannot be seen or measured - yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more than any material possession ever could. - Barbara De Angelis, Ph.D.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. - Benjamin Franklin
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. - Mother Theresa
There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough. - Nicholas Sparks
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. - Tom Robbins reciting one of my best love quotes
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience. - M. Scott Peck
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. - Erich Fromm
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away. - Elbert Hubbard
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it. - John Lennon
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being. - Ba'al Shem Tov reciting one of my best love quotes
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive. - Orlando Battista
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings. - Buddha
Love in its essence is spiritual fire. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion. I have shudder'd at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion. Love is my religion. And I could die for that. I could die for you. - John Keats
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. - Victor Hugo
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable. - Henry Ward Beecher
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love. - William Wordsworth
The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. - John Bulwer
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours. - Ralph Waldo Emerson reciting one of my best love quotes
Love is perfect kindness - Joseph Campbell
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man's only promise. - Leo Buscaglia
Love is when reality is better than your dreams. - Becky Graham
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. - Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. Peter Ustinov
Love is the only rational act. - Morrie Schwarz
Real love stories never have endings. - Richard Bach reciting one of my best love quotes
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. - Benjamin Franklin
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