Top 50 Book Quotes About Love (2025 Update)

1. “Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”

— Rumi

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2. “There is no Love greater than Love with no object. For then you, yourself, have become love, itself.”

— Rumi

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3. “But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”

— Khalil Gibran

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4. “Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.”

— Thomas Merton

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5. “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.”

— Oscar Wilde

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6. “Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”

— Rumi

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7. “Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we’re gone.”

— Cecelia Ahern

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8. “Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.”

— Erich Fromm

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9. “In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”

— Rumi

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10. “I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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11. “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where, I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I don’t know any other way of loving.”

— Pablo Neruda

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12. “Let us have love and more love; a love that melts all opposition, a love that conquers all foes, a love that sweeps away all barriers, a love that aboundeth in charity, a large-heartedness, tolerance, forgiveness and noble striving, a love that triumphs over all obstacles.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

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13. “Only love can bring us peace. And the experience of love is a choice we make, a mental decision to see love as the only real purpose and value in any situation.”

— Marianne Williamson

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14. “I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star.”

— Rumi

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15. “In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I’ll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace.”

— Nicholas Sparks

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16. “This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.”

— Rumi

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17. “Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.”

— Leo Tolstoy

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18. “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”

— Anaïs Nin

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19. “It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.”

— Mother Teresa

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20. “Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.”

— Paulo Coelho

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21. “But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”

— William Shakespeare

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22. “The salvation of man is through love and in love.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

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23. “Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.”

— Mitch Albom

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24. “What barrier is there that love cannot break?”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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25. “Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.”

— Ann Landers

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26. “The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person’s suffering and bring that person joy.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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27. “Love is not patronizing and charity isn’t about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same – with charity you give love, so don’t just give money but reach out your hand instead.”

— Mother Teresa

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28. “We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.”

— Leonard Cohen

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29. “Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.”

— Gary Zukav

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30. “Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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31. “Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that one to Him?”

— Mother Teresa

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32. “It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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33. “Jesus invites us to abide in his love. That means to dwell with all that I am in him. It is an invitation to a total belonging, to full intimacy, to an unlimited being-with. The light of the Spirit reveals to us that love conquers all fear.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

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34. “Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”

— Rumi

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35. “Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.”

— Saint Augustine

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36. “Humility and patience are the surest proofs of the increase of love.”

— John Wesley

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37. “To love is to lose control.”

— Paulo Coelho

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38. “Love God, then do what you will.”

— Saint Augustine

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39. “Give love and forget that you gave it.”

— Sun Myung Moon

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40. “You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values; their virtues.”

— Ayn Rand

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41. “God gives us people to love and things to use, not things to love and people to use.”

— Max Lucado

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42. “Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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43. “Obedience out of love is joy.”

— Heidi Baker

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44. “The reason that ego and love are not compatible comes down to this: you cannot take your ego into the unknown, where love wants to lead. If you follow love, your life will become uncertain, and the ego craves certainty.”

— Deepak Chopra

45. “Frankly, there isn’t anyone you couldn’t learn to love once you’ve heard their story.”

— Andrew Stanton

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46. “Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.”

— John Donne

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47. “God loves you as though you are the only person in the world, and He loves everyone the way He loves you.”

— David Jeremiah

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48. “Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.”

— G.I. Gurdjieff

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49. “To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”

— Federico García Lorca

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50. “The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.”

— Bruce D. Perry