Something that provides inspiration or motivates someone to pursue their goals and aspirations. Inspirational things can come in various forms, including quotes, songs, images, or even people who serve as role models or sources of inspiration. The idea behind inspirational things is to evoke feelings of positivity, hope, and determination, and to encourage people to overcome challenges and pursue their dreams. Inspirational things are often used as a way to uplift the spirits, boost confidence, and encourage people to believe in themselves and their abilities.
Inspirational Love Quotes
1. “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
— James Baldwin
2. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
— Lucille Ball
3. “Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
4. “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
— Morrie Schwartz
5. “Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”
— Lord Byron
6. “If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
— Herman Hesse
7. “I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.”
— Roy Croft
8. “Love is a friendship set to music.”
— Joseph Campbell
9. “We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
10. “When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.”
— Blaise Pascal
11. “Love in its essence is spiritual fire.”
— Seneca
12. “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
13. “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
14. “Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.”
— Leo Buscaglia
15. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
— Maya Angelou
16. “There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
— George Sand
17. “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
18. “Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.”
— Lao Tzu
19. “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
20. “At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”
— Plato
21. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.”
— Alfred Tennyson
22. “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
23. “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.”
— Helen Keller
24. “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
— Oscar Wilde
25. “The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.”
— Henry Miller
26. “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
— Oprah Winfrey
27. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
— Buddha
28. “You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
— Dr. Seuss
29. “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
— Khalil Gibran
30. “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
31. “The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”
— Albert Ellis
32. “If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.”
— Benjamin Franklin
33. “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
34. “Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
— Euripides
35. “Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
36. “Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”
— Paulo Coelho
37. “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
38. “A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.”
— Andrew Matthews
39. “We are most alive when we’re in love.”
— John Updike
40. “The love we give away is the only love we keep.”
— Elbert Hubbard
41. “The giving of love is an education in itself.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
42. “The more one judges, the less one loves.”
— Honore de Balzac
43. “Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
— Pablo Neruda
44. “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
45. “A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
— Ingrid Bergman
46. “You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.”
— Diane Von Furstenberg
47. “Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’”
— Erich Fromm
48. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
— Lao Tzu
49. “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”
— Sophocles
50. “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
51. “Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”
— Andre Breton
52. “Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all.”
— Ernest Hemingway
53. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
— Elbert Hubbard
54. “I found in my research that the biggest reason people aren’t more self-compassionate is that they are afraid they’ll become self-indulgent. They believe self-criticism is what keeps them in line. Most people have gotten it wrong because our culture says being hard on yourself is the way to be.”
— Kristen Neff
