Motivational quotes about love

There are mountains and valleys of life, moments of turmoil and moments of happiness, but "nothing can bring more pleasure to life than relationships which are wonderfully completed," as the personal growth pioneer Jim Rohn said.

According to him, support, persistence, commitment, shared interests, an element of fun — and love — are essential to successful relationships.

I would like to share motivational quotes about love. Timeless and inspirational thoughts written down and shared through the decades, ages and, yes, even generations.

Thoughts not just of good, loving life, but even the connection between friends and families. And the love that is often overlooked or pushed to the side: the love that you have for yourself.

Following are the most touching, inspiring and helpful motivational quotes about love:

 

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

 

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

 

“Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself.” – Oprah Winfrey

 

“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” – Lao Tzu

 

“Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.” – Augustine of Hippo

 

“Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” —Mother Teresa

 

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

 

“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.” – Marilyn Monroe

 

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.” – Dalai Lama

 

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

 

“You 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 deserves your love and affection.” —Gautama Buddha

 

“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings’ infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

 

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

 

“Only time can heal your broken heart, just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.” – Miss Piggy

 

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

 

“Love isn’t finding a perfect person. It’s seeing an imperfect person perfectly.” – Sam Keen

 

“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is a quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.” — Ann Landers

 

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

 

“Sexiness is a state of mind – a comfortable state of being. It’s about loving yourself in your most unlovable moments.” – Halle Berry

 

“Passion is momentary; love is enduring.” – John Wooden

 

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

 

“We love the things we love for what they are.” – Robert Frost

 

“The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.” – Jennifer Aniston

 

“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.” — Roy Croft

 

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

 

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

 

“Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.” – The Wizard of Oz

 

“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.” – C. S. Lewis

 

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” Simone Weil

 

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

 

There are few more motivational quotes about love below:

 

“When we are in love, we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.” — Blaise Pascal

 

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

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

 

“Our first and last love is self-love.” —Christian Nestell Bovee

 

“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

 

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

 

“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

 

“To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.” – Madonna

 

“Your heart is free, have the courage to follow it.” – Braveheart

 

“The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” – Vincent van Gogh

 

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

 

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

 

“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

 

“I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I’m open to anything that will happen to me.” – Nicole Kidman

 

“Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.” – Thomas Aquinas

 

“The more one judges, the less one loves.” —Honoré de Balzac

 

“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

 

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

 

“The first duty of love is to listen.” —Paul Tillich

 

“Love to me is someone telling me, ‘I want to be with you for the rest of my life, and if you needed me to I’d jump out of a plane for you.’” – Jennifer Lopez

 

“You don’t marry someone you can live with – you marry the person who you cannot live without.”– Anonymous

 

“Love is just a word, but you bring it definition.” – Eminem

 

“Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.” – Maya Angelou

 

“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

 

“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.” — John Lennon

 

“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

 

“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

 

“Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people; you can set your watch by them. And that’s love, even if it doesn’t seem very exciting.” – Sylvester Stallone

 

Love is the need of every human being. Every one of us needs and deserves love, whether it’s love from another person or self-love. Love 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.

Perhaps these motivational quotes about love raise your spirits and give you insight to full your heart and soul with the eternal love in life.

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