Here are some thoughtful and thought-provoking quotes and sayings about love. These maxims are excellent to put into a Valentine’s Day card, anniversary card or just a card to say “I love you.” They are great for girlfriends, boyfriends, husbands or wives and can also be used for something as simple as a Post-it note on a lunch bag to a beautifully written piece of script in a love journal or scrapbook. They can even be used at a toast for a wedding or an anniversary or birthday celebration.
Inspirational Love Quotes and Sayings
We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.
– Mother Teresa, 20th-century missionary
A loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one’s work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.
– Albert Camus, 20th-century writer
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
– John Donne, 16th/17th-century poet
How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose we know not, though sometimes sense it. But we know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
– Albert Einstein, 20th-century physicist
Love reciprocated is always rejuvenating.
– T.S. Eliot, 20th-century poet
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the never ending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way.
– Marlin Finch Lupus
…walk through life in dreams
Out of love of the hand that leads us.
– Antonio Machado, 19th/20th-century poet
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
– Dr. Karl Menninger,19th-century psychiatrist
Together we stood without words
And love, like the heavy fragrance
Of the flowering thorn tree, pierced us
– Gabriella Mistral, 19th/20th-century poet
Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.
- Octavio Paz, 20th-century writer
I am a crystal goblet in my Love’s hand. Look into my eyes if you don’t believe me.
– Jalal Al-Din Rumi, 13th-century poet
A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.
– Latin proverb
Choose from any of these quotations and sayings to write a note, card or letter to a loved one for any season, holiday or event that celebrates love. They can also be used for speeches and toasts at weddings and anniversary parties. Also check out Romantic and Sweet Quotes and Sayings, Funny Marriage Quotes and Sayings and How to Write a Love Journal.
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