Inspiring Quotes on Love and Life

Here are a few quotes that may inspire you to love yourself and to share your love with others: 

1. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu 

We accept the love we think we deserve. — Stephen Chbosky 

 

2. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. — Mahatma Gandhi

 3. A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. — H. Jackson Brown Jr. 

4. The happiest people don’t have the best of everything; they just make the best of everything. — Anonymous 

5. Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. — Dale Carnegie 

6. If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. — Dalai Lama 

7. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. — Eckhart Tolle 

It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone...but it takes a lifetime to forget someone. — Anonymous 

8. Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. — Dr. Seuss 

9. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable. — C.S. Lewis 

10. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 

11. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. — Helen Keller 

12. Forgiveness means letting go of all expectations...and giving up all hope for a better past. — Shannon L. Alder 

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. — George Sand 

13. He who has never hoped can never despair. — Samuel Johnson 

14. Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. — Winston Churchill 

15. There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. — Nelson Mandela 

16. For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday, and less than tomorrow. — Rosemonde Gerard 

17. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. — Article 1 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights 

I love you not only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you. — Roy Croft 

18. Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand. — Mother Teresa 

19. Never close your lips to those to whom you have already opened your heart. — Charles Dickens 

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

21. The best and most beautiful things in life can not be seen or even heard but must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller

22. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle 

23. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. — Friedrich Nietzsche

 24. Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look that becomes a habit. — Peter Ustinov 

 If you judge people, you have no time to love them. — Mother Teresa 

25. I have found that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. — Mother Teresa

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

27. You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love. — Henry Drummond 

28. The best and most beautiful things in life can not be seen or even heard but must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller 

29. Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand. — Mother Teresa 

30. Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look that becomes a habit. — Peter Ustinov 

There is no remedy for love but to love more. — Henry David Thoreau 

31. Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand. — Mother Teresa 

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

33. I have found that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. — Mother Teresa

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. — Mother Teresa 

 

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