Romantic Love Quotes for Girl Friend and Boy Friend

Love Quotes

“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”

— Herman Hesse

“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.”
— Roy Croft

“Love is a friendship set to music.”
—  Joseph Campbell

“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.”
— Blaise Pascal

“Love in its essence is spiritual fire.”
— Seneca

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton 

 “It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.”
— Leo Buscaglia

 “There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
— George Sand

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”— Rumi

“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.”— Lao Tzu

“You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.”— Julia Roberts

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”— Plato

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.”— Alfred Tennyson

“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

 “'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”— Vincent Van Gogh

“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”— Albert Ellis

“If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.”— Benjamin Franklin

“When you adopt the viewpoint that there is nothing that exists that is not part of you, that there is no one who exists who is not part of you, that any judgment you make is self-judgment, that any criticism you level is self-criticism, you will wisely extend to yourself an unconditional love that will be the light of the world.”– Harry Palmer

 “The giving of love is an education in itself.”— Eleanor Roosevelt

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”— Honore de Balzac

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”— Pablo Neruda

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”– Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”— Ingrid Bergman

“You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.” — Diane Von Furstenberg

“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.' Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.'”— Erich Fromm

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”— Lao Tzu

“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”— Sophocles

“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives? When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see in truth that you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”“The giving of love is an education in itself.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”— Honore de Balzac

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”— Pablo Neruda

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”– Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”— Ingrid Bergman

“You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.” — Diane Von Furstenberg

“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.' Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.'”— Erich Fromm

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”— Lao Tzu

“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”— Sophocles

“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives? When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see in truth that you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”

— Kahlil Gibran