Quotes About Love to Inspire You
Whether you want some words of love or are just hoping for some inspiration, here are some loving phrases that just might make your heart flutter.
Need some inspiration in the love department? Check out these quotes that may just lift you up:
● “When you get to a pace where you understand that love and belonging and your worthiness, is a birthright, and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.” - Brene Brown
● “I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love because that liberates. Love liberates.” - Maya Angelou
● “When you make loving others the story of your life, there’s never a final chapter, because the legacy continues.” - Oprah Winfrey
● “In one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who’s ever lived: I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.” - Nicholas Sparks
● “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” - Aristotle
Love and Trust
What is love without honesty? Here are some inspiring words about the relationship between love and trust:
● “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” - Maya Angelou
● “It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult, and very brave.” - Nicole Kidman
● “A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust, and respect, and if you don't have those, you don't have love.” - Neil Strauss
● “Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.” - William P. Young
● “Love cannot live where there is no trust.” - Edith Hamilton
Love and Patience
Feeling agitated about love? Maybe these quotes can help provide a different perspective about patience in love.
● “Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.” - Rumi
● “Love, patience, and meekness can be just as contagious as rudeness and crudeness.” - Neal A. Maxwell
● “In love, all kinds of love, we wait. If I can’t be your dawn, I will be your sunset.” - Rossana Condoleo
● “Some people find love right away, while others don’t. I haven’t, but will when the time is right.” - Julio Bonilla
● “Never rush into falling in love; because love never runs out. Let love be the one to knock at your door. Besides, true love is worth waiting for.” - The Bridalbox
Familial Love
Our first unit of community is often our relationship with our families. Check out these quotes below about family love.
● “The family is a community of love where each of us learns to relate to others and to the world around us.” - Pope Francis
● “In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
● “If you want to bring happiness to the world, go home and love your family.” - Mother Teresa
● “It didn’t matter how big our house was, it mattered that there was love in it.” - Peter Buffett
● “Family is not always by blood. It is by heart.” - Soumen Das
Platonic Love
Friends may often be our chosen family. Here are some quotes about the importance of friendship and platonic love:
● “Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to process all our issues, to cope with differences and conflict while staying connected.” - bell hooks
● “The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.” - Chelsea Handler
● “Platonic love is love from the neck up.” - Thera Samter Winslow
● “The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” - Hubert H. Humphrey
Romantic Love
It may not be the butterflies, but here are some just as beautiful quotes about romantic love:
● “Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.” - Marilyn Monroe
● “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because finally reality is better than your dreams.” - Dr. Seuss
● “This is the beauty of finding a partner that you really love and respect, because after all the highs and lows, and ups and downs, we have each other, which makes the journey worth it.” - Michelle Obama
● “Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.” - Toni Morrison
● “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone—we find it with another.” - Thomas Merton
● “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” - Sarah Dessen
Quotes from Movies
And finally, some near and dear quotes you may be familiar with from a few of the most popular rom-coms in history.
● “So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s gonna be really hard. We’re gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day.” - The Notebook (2004)
● "Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while." - The Princess Bride (1987)
● “I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” - When Harry Met Sally (1989)
In Sum
Let’s do a quick check-in with ourselves. How do you feel? Inspired? Calm? Warm? Happy? Maybe they’re not all completely positive emotions, and you find yourself questioning love or wanting to improve relationships in your own life—if so, that’s okay. Sometimes, quotes can help us put our life’s situations in perspective or give us some much-needed words we just needed to hear.