Ahhh Love! The word love (noun) comes from the Old English lufu “feeling of love; romantic sexual attraction; affection; friendliness; the love of God; Love as an abstraction or personification.” and the verb love originates from the Old English lufian “to feel love for, cherish, show love to; delight in, approve.” 

The dictionary defines love as “a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person,” “a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend,” “sexual passion or desire,” or “affection based on admiration, benevolence, or common interests.”

Some synonyms for love include: affection, appreciation, devotion, emotion, fondness, friendship, respect, tenderness, yearning, allegiance, amity, ardor, attachment, cherishing, devotedness, delight, enchantment, enjoyment, fervor, fidelity, piety, regard, zeal, and soft spot.

Antonyms for love include apathetic, cold, disloyal, hateful, disagreeable, antagonistic,  inattentive, inconsiderate, inconstant, indifferent, mean, neglectful, negligent, selfish, thoughtless, uncaring, unenthusiastic, unfaithful, unfriendly, and unkind.

Love is all you need. All you need is love. And unlike Pat Benatar would have you believe, love is NOT a battlefield… Love is the most precious and helpful energy in the universe.

The Holy Bible says:

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.

When I read those words, I gotta come to the conclusion that love is what a positive mom aspires to BE; that love is more than a feeling or a connection, it’s a state of being that can take many shapes and forms when demonstrated, whether in romance, friendship, or family relationships. 

So let’s examine the best quotes about love, words that have been said by the world’s most renowned poets, authors, philosophers, and even musicians – because some of the greatest things said about love come in the form of a song.

Enjoy this inspiring list of the most touching, timeless, and thought-provoking quotes on love, from my heart to yours. As you read them, may you love yourself even if a little bit more, for the most often neglected love is the love of self – self love. 

Positive Quotes About LOVE

“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.” ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.” ~ Erich Fromm

“Love in its essence is spiritual fire.” ~  Seneca

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

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” ~ Aristotle

“Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible – it 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.” ~ Barbara de Angelis

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

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” ~ Marcus Aurelius

“Love is the beauty of the soul.” ~ Saint Augustine

“Faith makes all things possible… love makes all things easy.” ~ Dwight L. Moody

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” ~ Victor Hugo

“A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.” ~ George Herbert

“Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore

“Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It’s free.” ~ Taraji P. Henson

“Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.” ~ Louise L. Hay

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” ~ Plato

“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” ~ Helen Keller

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” ~ Euripides

“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.” ~  Sophocles

“Fortune and love favor the brave.” ~ Ovid

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

“Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.” ~ Wayne Dyer

“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,
Love like you’ll never be hurt,
Sing like there’s nobody listening,
And live like it’s heaven on earth.” ~  William W. Purkey

“They 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.” ~ Tom Bodett

““I love you” begins by I, but it ends up by you.” ~ Charles de Leusse

“Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” ~  Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t 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.” ~ Anais Nin

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”~ Elbert Hubbard

“I would die for you. But I won’t live for you.” ~ Stephen Chbosky

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” ~ Paulo Coelho

“Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ~ Dr. Seuss

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

“We accept the love we think we deserve.” ~ Stephen Chbosky

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”~ Andre Gide

“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.” ~  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.”~ Elie Wiesel

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”~ Paulo Coelho

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”~ Robert Fulghum

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”~ William Shakespeare

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
~  Neil Gaiman

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

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

“Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.” ~ Leo Buscaglia

‘I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.” — Leo Christopher

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

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

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

“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.” ~ Lord Byron

“It 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.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

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

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” ~ Maya Angelou

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

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ~ Rumi

“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.” ~ Albert Ellis

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

“You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.” ~ Julia Roberts

“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” ~ Helen Keller

“The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.” ~ Henry Miller

“Lots 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.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”~  Honore de Balzac

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” ~ Buddha

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

“You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ~ Dr. Seuss

“Where there is love there is life.”~ Mahatma Gandhi

“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.‘” ~ Erich Fromm

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

“’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Love 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.” ~ Vincent Van Gogh

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

“When you adopt the viewpoint that there is nothing that exists that is not part of you, that there is no one who exists who is not part of you, that any judgment you make is self-judgment, that any criticism you level is self-criticism, you will wisely extend to yourself an unconditional love that will be the light of the world.” ~ Harry Palmer

“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.” ~ Paulo Coelho

“The giving of love is an education in itself.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

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

“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” ~ Hubert H. Humphrey

“A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.” ~ Andrew Matthews

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” ~ Pablo Neruda

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” ~  Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” ~ Elbert Hubbard

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” ~  Ingrid Bergman

“Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.” ~ David Wilkerson

“You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.” ~  Diane Von Furstenberg

“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives? When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see in truth that you are weeping for that which has been your delight.” ~Kahlil Gibran

“Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“I found in my research that the biggest reason people aren’t more self-compassionate is that they are afraid they’ll become self-indulgent. They believe self-criticism is what keeps them in line. Most people have gotten it wrong because our culture says being hard on yourself is the way to be.” ~ Kristen Neff

“Love is a better teacher than duty.” ~ Albert Einstein

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

“I have no special gift. With deep love, I give what I have.” ~ Debasish Mridha

“If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.” ~  Barbara De Angelis

“Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.” ~ James Thurber

“Every person has to love at least one bad partner in their lives to be truly thankful for the right one.” ~  Unknown

“There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” ~  Anaïs Nin

“The best proof of love is trust.” ~ Joyce Brothers

“When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits – anything that kept me small. My judgment called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.” ~  Kim McMillen

“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” ~ Carl Sagan

“Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” ~ Franklin P. Jones

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t 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.” ~  Anaïs Nin

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” ~  A. A. Milne

“Love is not about how many days, weeks or months you’ve been together, it’s all about how much you love each other every day.”  ~ Unknown

“I love you for all that you are, all that you have been and all that you will be.”  ~ Unknown

“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” ~ Helen Keller

“This morning I awoke and was reminded of the preciousness of life. I realized I should express my gratitude to those who are so very important to me. Thank you for all you have done and have a great day!” ~ Unknown

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

“And then my soul saw you and it kind of went, “Oh, there you are. I’ve been looking all over for you.” ~ Unknown

“Lots 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.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

“You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ~ Dr. Seuss

“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.” ~ Max Muller

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride.” ~ Pablo Neruda

“My love for you is past the mind, beyond my heart, and into my soul.” ~ Boris Kodjoe

“Sometimes I think, I need a spare heart to feel all the things I feel.” ~ Sanober Khan

“Love is supposed to be based on trust, and trust on love, it’s something rare and beautiful when people can confide in each other without fearing what the other person will think.” ~ E.A. Bucchianeri

“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

“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.” – William Shakespeare

“The beautiful thing about love is that you just need to plant it once and nurture it and it shall bloom into blossoms that would cover the valleys.” ~ Hermann J. Steinherr

“You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

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

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

“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.” ~ Jess C. Scott

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

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” ~ Paulo Coelho

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” ~ Zelda Fitzgerald

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

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

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

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

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” ~ Charles Schulz

“We love because it’s the only true adventure.” ~ Nikki Giovanni

“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” ~ Washington Irving

“Patience is the mark of true love. If you truly love someone, you will be more patient with that person.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

“Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.” ~ Barbara De Angelis

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

“Just in case you have forgotten today: You matter. You are loved. You are worthy. You are magical.” ~ Unknown

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

Today, I invite you to be open in expressing your love to the people around you. Use these deep love quotes as guiding inspiration to utter sweet words of affection and appreciation to your significant others (the people who matter most to us and we may sometimes take for granted). 

Most of the time, when you love someone dearly, we don’t say it often enough because it becomes difficult to find the right words and we wish we had more eloquent ways to express our love. Remember that love is a vibration that can be felt… “more than words.” 

What is your favorite positive quote about love? Tell us which of these positive quotes love. Share in the comments below which love resonated with you most and be sure to share your favorite love quotes with the people you love.

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