There are 3 sets of words that can instantly make a woman smile: "You are beautiful." "I miss you." "I love you.— Author Unknown
213 Love Quotes
Words for the early days, the long haul, and everything in between.
Love is not a feeling that arrives once. It is something you choose every day, in small moments most people never notice. A text first thing in the morning. A look across the room. The decision to listen without fixing.
These 213 love quotes come from poets, scientists, athletes, and ordinary people who tried to put words to something this big. Some are about romantic love. Some are about loving the version of someone you only get to see in private. A few are about loving someone you had to let go of.
Save the ones that feel true. Send the ones that feel impossible to say out loud.
Love Quotes: Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between love and infatuation?
Infatuation is about how someone makes you feel. Love is about how you decide to show up for them. Infatuation is loud at the start and quiet at the end. Love is usually the opposite. If you cannot picture a boring Tuesday with the person, you are probably still in infatuation.
How do you know if it is real love?
Real love tends to make you calmer, not more anxious. Excitement is great, but the steady-state matters more. Real love does not require you to perform, shrink, or guess. If you are constantly trying to decode the relationship, that is data. Pay attention to it.
Can love change someone?
Love can support someone who is already changing. It cannot do the changing for them. If you are loving a potential version of a person that does not yet exist, you are not in a relationship with the person, you are in a relationship with a project. That rarely ends well.
What do you do when love is not enough?
Love being present is not the same as love being sustainable. Two people can love each other and still be wrong for each other: different values, different timing, different needs. The bravest thing you can do sometimes is admit that love alone does not solve the math, and stop punishing each other for it.
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All topics ›A good relationship is when two people accept each other's past and love each other's present.— Author Unknown
A kind word is never wasted. Especially between people who love each other.— Author Unknown
All relationships have ups and downs; love is strange. Just make sure you love someone for who they are, not who you want them to be.— Author Unknown
Always remind your loved ones that you love them. Over and over again. You just never know.— Reyna Biddy
Anyone can give you attention and compliments... but someone who loves you will give you that plus respect, honesty, trust, and loyalty.— Charles Orlando
Attraction is common. What is rare is having someone who wants to grow and build with you. A soul partner, a soul confidante, a soul mate.— Billy Chapata
Being able to wait is a sign of true love and patience. Anyone can say "I love you," but not everyone can wait and prove that it’s true.— Author Unknown
Sometimes people are in love with the idea of being in love instead of being in love with the person they are with.— Author Unknown
When you choose to love someone who is damaged, you take on the weight of their past, their pain, their guilt. You must be strong, you must be patient. You can stop the bleeding and help them scar over but they will always, always be a little broken. If you can handle that, if you can accept the dents and the cracks, if you can get them to trust you, you will never find a better ally than one who is damaged. Above all else, they know about survival.— Author Unknown
Date someone who sleeps on your chest and snores in your ear. Date someone who’ll be your Friday night and your entire Saturday. Date someone who is proud of you. Date someone who only makes you cry of laughter. Date someone who isn’t afraid to love everything about you. Find someone who believes love is black and white; you either love someone or you don’t. There are so many mediocre things in life, love shouldn’t be one of them. - i-g-norance.— Author Unknown
Date yourself. Take yourself out to eat. Don’t share your popcorn at the movies with anyone. Stroll around an art museum alone. Fall in love with canvases. Fall in love with yourself.— Author Unknown
Don’t cry, because someone is falling in love with your eyes. Don’t scream, because someone is falling in love with your voice. Don’t frown, because someone is falling in love with your smile. Don’t hide, because someone out there is looking for you.— Author Unknown
Don't fall in love with someone who says the right things, fall in love with someone who does the right things.— Robert Tew
Don't give up on love because there is always someone who loves you. Even if it's not the person you were hoping or wishing for.— Author Unknown
Fall in love or fall in hate. Get inspired or be depressed. Ace a test or flunk a class. Make babies or make art. Speak the truth or lie and cheat. Dance on tables or sit in the corner. Life is devine chaos. Embrace it. Forgive yourself. Breathe. And enjoy the ride.— Author Unknown
Fall in love with someone who’s comfortable with your silence. Find someone who doesn’t need your words to know it’s time to kiss you.— Clairabelle Ann
Fall in love with someone who truly deserves your heart. Not someone who plays with it.— Sarah Dessen
Fall in love with taking care of yourself.— Author Unknown
Fall in love with the person looking back at you in the mirror.— Author Unknown
Fall in love with yourself first.— Author Unknown
Fall in love with yourself. Give yourself compliments. Self-love is important.— Author Unknown
Fall in love with somebody who will never let you go to sleep wondering if you still matter.— Author Unknown
Fall in love with someone who doesn't make you think love is hard.— Author Unknown
Falling in love is easy, staying in love is a challenge, letting go is hard, and moving on is the hardest.— Author Unknown
Falling in love with yourself is as beautiful as any experience of love is. It’s learning to laugh at your awkward tendencies and smile at all your quirky habits. It’s learning to be grateful for the many sides you have - confident, crazy, shy, sexy, nerdy, angry, weird, and all the rest of them. It is realizing that you’re one of a kind and that you deserve to give the world the best person you can be. Falling in love with yourself is being happy in your life and knowing that in this one moment in time, you’re beautiful simply because you are you. - Kovie Biakolo, Falling In Love With Yourself.— Author Unknown
Falling in love with yourself first doesn’t make you vain or selfish, it makes you indestructible.— Author Unknown
Find someone who isn't afraid to admit they miss you. Someone who knows you're not perfect but treats you as if you are. Someone who couldn't imagine losing you. Someone who gives their heart to you completely. Someone who says I love you and proves it. Last but not least, find someone who wouldn't mind waking up to you in the morning, seeing your wrinkles and grey hair but still falls in love with you all over again.— Author Unknown
Find someone who wants to invest in you, learn from you, see you win, support your visions, and fall in love with you daily.— Author Unknown
Happy Valentine’s Day to myself. I love you.— Author Unknown
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