Love is in the air!
The week of Valentines is upon us and the world embarks on the journey of sharing love.
To be honest, I’m not normally one to do too much on Valentines Day except spend some quality time with Sylvia (my girlfriend.. P.S. I love you!). However, this year feels a little different. This year is bigger than most and this year I wanted to ensure all of you have a fantastic Valentines Day.
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Why Spread the Love?
Valentines is always a funny day. You get two camps.: Those that love it and those that don’t want to have anything to do with it 🙂
For those that don’t know, I founded Australia’s largest social group for people in their 20’s (if you’re in Sydney or travelling through, make sure you come say hi!). Interestingly, a member of the group has created an event titled ‘Anti-Valentines Day Drinks’…. any excuse for a drink or two! 🙂
But this is not uncommon. Many people don’t have a partner to share Valentines Day and you know what… there’s nothing wrong with this! The love can still be shared amongst friends and family and ofcourse your secret crush.
I also wanted to send a message out to those that have lost their partner over the years. I just want to let you know that I care deeply for you and I can only imagine what it would be like to lose your closest loved-one. If I could spread my love and give you a hug I would.
I wanted to share the love with you as best as I could, but not only that, I want to make it easy for you to be able to share your love with those closest to you.
The Best Quotes About Love… of All Time
This week, I share with you the Best Quotes About Love of All Time… in fact, I provide you with the Top 50!
I hope you enjoy. I’ve even enabled you to quickly and easily spread the love by adding a ‘tweet this’ button next to each quote. Let’s share the love!
You can even click this –> Tweet This –> to share this page with your friends and loved ones.
| Rank | Quote | Author | Tweet This |
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| 1 | Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. | Aristotle | Tweet This |
| 2 | Love means never having to say youÂ’re sorry. | Ali MacGraw | Tweet This |
| 3 | Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. | C. S. Lewis | Tweet This |
| 4 | Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. | Bruce Lee | Tweet This |
| 5 | Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. | Oscar Wilde | Tweet This |
| 6 | Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' | Erich Fromm | Tweet This |
| 7 | A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. | George Jean Nathan | Tweet This |
| 8 | A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. | Ingrid Bergman | Tweet This |
| 9 | I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. | Mother Teresa | Tweet This |
| 10 | Where there is love there is life. | Mahatma Gandhi | Tweet This |
| 11 | A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. | Thomas Carlyle | Tweet This |
| 12 | A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. | Max Muller | Tweet This |
| 13 | A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. | Honore de Balzac | Tweet This |
| 14 | For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. | Judy Garland | Tweet This |
| 15 | Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. | Mother Teresa | Tweet This |
| 16 | Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. | Jim Morrison | Tweet This |
| 17 | Do all things with love. | Og Mandino | Tweet This |
| 18 | A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. | Brendan Francis | Tweet This |
| 19 | Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. | Francois de La Rochefoucauld | Tweet This |
| 20 | Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? | Richard Bach | Tweet This |
| 21 | A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. | Rupert Brooke | Tweet This |
| 22 | We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. | Orson Welles | Tweet This |
| 23 | 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 A. Baldwin | Tweet This |
| 24 | At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. | Plato | Tweet This |
| 25 | If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. | A. A. Milne | Tweet This |
| 26 | Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. | Charles Caleb Colton | Tweet This |
| 27 | Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. | Barbara de Angelis | Tweet This |
| 28 | If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. | Michel de Montaigne | Tweet This |
| 29 | 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 | Tweet This |
| 30 | Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. | Leo Buscaglia | Tweet This |
| 31 | The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. | Audrey Hepburn | Tweet This |
| 32 | Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy. | Dwight L. Moody | Tweet This |
| 33 | Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. | Khalil Gibran | Tweet This |
| 34 | Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. | H. L. Mencken | Tweet This |
| 35 | The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. | Mother Teresa | Tweet This |
| 36 | The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. | George Edward Moore | Tweet This |
| 37 | I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. | Judy Garland | Tweet This |
| 38 | The best proof of love is trust. | Joyce Brothers | Tweet This |
| 39 | Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. | Pierre Teilhard de Chardin | Tweet This |
| 40 | If you want to be loved, be lovable. | Ovid | Tweet This |
| 41 | If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. | Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton | Tweet This |
| 42 | Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you. | Loretta Young | Tweet This |
| 43 | True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. | Francois de La Rochefoucauld | Tweet This |
| 44 | Love is the flower you've got to let grow. | John Lennon | Tweet This |
| 45 | We loved with a love that was more than love. | Edgar Allan Poe | Tweet This |
| 46 | The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. | Jiddu Krishnamurti | Tweet This |
| 47 | Love is a better teacher than duty. | Albert Einstein | Tweet This |
| 48 | It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Tweet This |
| 49 | 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 | Tweet This |
| 50 | Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. | H. Jackson Brown, Jr. | Tweet This |
What’s your favourite quote? What are you doing this Valentines Day?
I would love to hear!
Brendan
Good day! This is my first comment here so I just wanted to give a
quick shout out and tell you I truly enjoy reading your
blog posts. Can you suggest any other blogs/websites/forums that cover the same topics?
Thanks a lot!
Fantastic list, but why only be romantic on Valentine’s day, let’s keep it up all year =)
One of my favorite quotes comes from a foreign writer and in English it becomes something like:
“There is a seed of a man in you, and a droplet of a woman in me – together we become crazy beautiful.”
Thanks again Brendan,
-Matthew M. McEwan
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” Why have I read this quote only now? It’s awesome and perfect, I just love it, and…oh, now I’m at a loss for words… can I kiss someone instead? 🙂
Hahaha, yes indeedy it’s a good one!
I’ll let you kiss someone else around here! 😛
Many great quotes here. I posted some stuff from Aristotle in my last post, and I really like the quote you shared, “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
Hey Eric,
Aristotle has some awesome quotes… I like your work. And that quote you chose has to be my fav 🙂
“I never liked the men I loved and never loved the men I liked.” ~ Fanny Brice
Cheers!
Hehe, it’s a goodie!
No.10 is my favorite, Brendan. Great list. And of course “Love conquers all!”
Thanks for the awesome compilation!
happy Valentine’s Day to you and Sylvia!
Indeed, love does conquer all 🙂
Thanks, Vidya! Happy Valentines Day to you too!