In today's post, we've thoughtfully curated 20 heartwarming quotes and reflections on love from some of humanity's greatest minds. Browsing through this collection, just like any other of ours, is entirely free. However, if you find these insights particularly valuable today, we'd greatly appreciate a virtual coffee as a token of your support! ☕
Quote № 01:
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”
— Bertrand Russell, “What I Believe”
Quote № 02:
“The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
— Vincent van Gogh
Quote № 03:
“What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.”
— Pearl Bailey
Quote № 04:
“This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, “Letters”
Quote № 05:
“One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.”
— Aphra Behn, “The Rover”
Quote № 06:
“Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.”
— Marge Piercy, “Gone to Soldiers”
Quote № 07:
“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous, that you realize just how much you love them.”
— Agatha Christie, “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”
Quote № 08:
“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
— Joan Crawford
Quote № 09:
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
— Neil Gaiman, “The Sandman”
Quote № 10:
“You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.”
— Henry Drummond
Quote № 11:
“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.”
— Charlotte Brontë, “Carolyn Warner”
Quote № 12:
“In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.”
— Marcel Proust, “The Maxims of Marcel Proust”
Quote № 13:
“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.”
— Simone de Beauvoir
Quote № 14:
“Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.”
— John Wesley, “Letter to Joseph Benson”
Quote № 15:
“Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.”
— Nora Roberts, “Honest Illusions”
Quote № 16:
“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
— George Sand, “Letter to Lina Calamatta”
Quote № 17:
“True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.”
— Stendhal, “On Love”
Quote № 18:
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
— Carl Sagan, “Contact”
Quote № 19:
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
— Robert A. Heinlein, “Stranger in a Strange Land”
Quote № 20:
“Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.”
— Anita Brookner