Love may be a four letter word, but it's a complex emotion. Love can be felt toward friends, family, romantic partners and even yourself.
Word of love, including self-love, are impactful and remind you that beauty can be found in the places you least expect it. But sometimes, you can't seem to find the right words that go beyond a simple, "I love you."
Certain quotes might help convey how you feel. Whether they come from your favorite author or film, these messages can remind you to cherish those around you and continue spreading warmth and affection.
If you're looking for more, here is a compiled list of love quotes from throughout the decades:
50 quotes about love
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."–Dr. Seuss
"If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love." – Princess Diana
"I’ve tried so many times to think of a new way to say it - and it’s still 'I love you.'" – Zelda Fitzgerald
"Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it." – Nicholas Sparks, "A Walk to Remember"
"There is no remedy for love but to love more." – Henry David Thoreau
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,"Airman's Odyssey
"To love is to recognize yourself in another." –Eckhart Tolle
"If I know what love is, it’s because of you." – Hermann Hesse
"Where there is great love, there are always miracles." – Willa Cather,"Death Comes for the Archbishop"
"Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze." – Elinor Glyn
"True love stories never have endings." –Richard Bach
"Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts." –Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone." –J. R. R. Tolkien
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only what you are expecting to give – which is everything." –Katherine Hepburn
"My heart is and always will be yours." –Jane Austen
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind." – William Shakespeare,"A Midsummer Night’s Dream"
"Love does not dominate; it cultivates." – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces." – Rumi
"Love is friendship set to music." – Jackson Pollock
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey." – Victor Hugo
"Happiness is anyone and anything at all that's loved by you." – Charles M. Schulz
"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope." – Maya Angelou
"Where there is love there is life." – Mahatma Gandhi
"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line." – Lucille Ball
"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." – Audrey Hepburn
"Love’s greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred." –Barbara De Angelis
"Love is a flower you got to let it grow." – John Lennon,"Mind Games"
"I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people." – Vincent van Gogh
"Yours is the light by which my spirit's born; you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars." – E.E. Cummings
"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." – Joan Powers,"Pooh's Little Instruction Book"
"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you ... I could walk through my garden forever." – Alfred Tennyson
"Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it." – Toni Morrison
"One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from others." – Bell Hooks, "All About Love: New Visions"
"Be the love you never received." – Rune Lazuli
"When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out." – Elizabeth Bowen,"A World of Love"
"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn." – Emily Dickinson
"In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine." – Maya Angelou
"You can't blame gravity for falling in love." – Albert Einstein
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of." – Blaise Pascal
"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment." – Sarah Dessen,"The Truth About Forever"
"I do love nothing in the world so well as you."– William Shakespeare, "Much Ado About Nothing"
"Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives." – Louise L. Hay
"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." – David Viscott
"When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues." – Oprah Winfrey
"If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets." – Haruki Murakami, "Kafka on the Shore"
"My soul and your soul are forever tangled" – N.R. Hart
"I love you" begins by I, but it ends up by you." – Charles de Leusse
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." – Lao Tzu
"Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction." – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,"Wind, Sand and Stars"
"I swear I couldn't love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow." –Leo Christopher
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