Love Archives - Inspiring Quotes

Quotes About Love

These quotes celebrate love in all its many forms and honor the different ways in which it shapes our lives, relationships, and sense of self.

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

Paul Lewis Boese

I learned that a friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.

True friendship withstands time, distance, and silence.

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You are what you love, not what loves you.

Charlie Kaufman

The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken.

Whatever you want emotionally, you have to start giving away.

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Ernest Hemingway

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Jane Austen

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Susan Sontag

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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Benjamin Disraeli

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Bianca Sparacino

Booker T. Washington

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Charles Dickens

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Charlie Kaufman

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Edgar Allan Poe

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Ella Fitzgerald

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Emily Dickinson

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Ernest Hemingway

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Mexican painter and self-portraitist (1907-1954)

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Henry David Thoreau

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Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Rabindranath Tagore

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Ursula K. Le Guin

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Vincent van Gogh

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