Best short meaningful love quotes

“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” – Bertrand Russell

Looking for love in a bar is like looking for food in the gutter. You might find something that resembles what you’re looking for, but it’s probably bad for you.

“To come upon love without seeking it is the only way to find it.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.” – Benjamin Franklin

Just because someone doesn’t love you the way that you want, doesn’t mean that they don’t love you the best way they know how.

“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, and enflames the great.” – Anonymous

“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone.” – Leo Tolstoy

“Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.” – Maurice Maeterlinck

“Love isn’t blind, it just uses a completely different navigation system that isn’t compatible with anything else.”

“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.” – H. L. Mencken

“To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.” – Anne-Sophie Swetchine

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then there will be true peace.” – Sri Chin Moi Gosh

“True intimacy with another human being can only be experienced when you have found true peace within yourself.” – Angela L. Wozniak

“Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.” – Leo Buscaglia“It is an irony that the more possessive you are, the more love you demand, the less you receive, while the more freedom you give, the less you demand, the more love you will receive.” – Dr. Harold Bloomfield

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.” – James Baldwin

“Love is not blind – it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.” – Rabbi J. Gordon

“It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.” – Anne Tyler

“Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.” – W. H. Auden

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” – Marcus Aurelius

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” – Bertrand Russell

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.” – Katharine Hepburn

“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don’t want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“Trust lies at the core of love; there can be no true love without trust.” – M.K.Soni

“Love is giving and it has nothing to do with what you receive.” – Dr. Wayne Dyer

“It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.” – Lawrence Durrell

“The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.” – Gilbert Chesterton

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then there will be true peace.” – Sri Chin Moi Gosh

“There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.” – Mother Teresa

“What will survive of us is love.” – Phillip Larkin

“Life is like a phone call with a loved one. When it is cut short, we realize how much of it we have wasted.” – KLBseagull

“Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

“That best portion of a good man’s life: His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.” – William Wordsworth

“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller

Power is never brought to an end by power. The eternal law is that power ends by love.

Longer meaningful love quotes

“To the extent that we are not living our lives exactly as we want – with the love and friendships we want, the abundance we want, and the happiness we are seeking – it’s to that extent we are resisting it.” – Brad Yates

“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.” – Henry Van Dyke

“People were made to be loved and things were made to be used. That’s why there’s so much chaos in the world – people are being used and things are being loved.” – Anonymous

“There isn’t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren’t really living without it.” – RealLivePreacher.com

“Unconditional love is full appreciation for someone/something that has some things you don’t espouse yourself. Because if you love someone just like you, you love them for the parts that remind you of you, and that’s conditional.” – blank_mind

“Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service. Whatever form we are, able or disabled, rich or poor, it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing; a lifelong sharing of love with others.” – Mother Teresa

“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.” – Tony the Tiger

Some Funny & Witty Love Quotes

“Sex is a dirty, filthy, vile disgusting thing. Save it for the one you love.”

How can you love God whom you have never seen, and hate your brother you see every day? Or is that why?

I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.