Love Quotes: For Platonic, Romantic, & Family Love

By Sukhman Rekhi, M.A.
Reviewed by Tchiki Davis, M.A., Ph.D.

Whether you want some words of love or are just hoping for some inspiration, here are some loving phrases that just might make your heart flutter.

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Don’t worry, this article isn’t an amalgamation of “live, laugh, love” quotes taken straight out of a teenage girl’s bedroom or a diary from 2007. The following sections of love quotes curated below are not aimed at redundancy or clichés, but rather were collected to provide you with a different perspective and wisdom about love to apply in your own life.

Whether you’re slowly learning to give yourself more love, could use some words to help you solve a problem that’s weighing heavy on your heart, or are longing to experience love at first sight—erm, or at first read—check out these love quotes below. You never know which ones just might take your breath away.

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Inspirational Quotes About Love

Need some inspiration in the love department? Check out these quotes that may just lift you up.

“When you get to a pace where you understand that love and belonging and your worthiness, is a birthright, and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.” - Brene Brown
“I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love because that liberates. Love liberates.” - Maya Angelou
“When you make loving others the story of your life, there’s never a final chapter, because the legacy continues.” - Oprah Winfrey
"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller
“In one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who’s ever lived: I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.” - Nicholas Sparks
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” - Aristotle
“When one loves, one does not calculate.” - Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

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Quotes About Love and Trust

What is love without honesty? Here are some inspiring words about the relationship between love and trust.

“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” - Maya Angelou
“It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult, and very brave.” - Nicole Kidman
“A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust, and respect, and if you don't have those, you don't have love.” - Neil Strauss
“Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.” - William P. Young
“Love cannot live where there is no trust.” - Edith Hamilton

Quotes About Love and Hate

Opposites attract, right? Let’s take a look at how some folks talk about the differences between love and hate.

“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
“When miracles happen, hope destroys hopelessness, joy overcomes pain, love conquers hate, and faith finds God in the midst of it all.” - Cherie Hill
“Love is mightier than hate; it doesn't need a sword to conquer.” - Matshona Dhliwayo
“Love always wins, no matter the weight or intent of the hatred.”- Mitta Xinindlu
"Hate leaves ugly scars; love leaves beautiful ones." - Mignon McLaughlin

Quotes About Love and Patience

Feeling frustrated about love? Maybe these quotes can help provide a different perspective about patience in love.

“Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.” - Rumi
“Love, patience, and meekness can be just as contagious as rudeness and crudeness.” - Neal A. Maxwell
“In love, all kinds of love, we wait. If I can’t be your dawn, I will be your sunset.” - Rossana Condoleo
“Some people find love right away, while others don’t. I haven’t, but will when the time is right.” - Julio Bonilla
“Never rush into falling in love; because love never runs out. Let love be the one to knock at your door. Besides, true love is worth waiting for.” - The Bridalbox

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Quotes About Love and Kindness

Love can sometimes hurt, sure. But it can also be filled with so much kindness. Here are some wise words about the connection between love and kindness.

“Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.” - Barbara De Angelis
“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” - Lao Tzu
“Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness.” - Dalai Lama
“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.” - Joseph Joubert
“Real love means loving-kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.” - Thich Nhat Hanh

Quotes About Love and Forgiveness

What’s that phrase, again? I’ll forgive, but I’ll never forget, is it? Here are some quotes you might just remember.

“There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.” - Bryant H. McGill
“To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.” - Robert Muller
“Without forgiveness and love, you will live with resentment, bitterness, malice and strife which result in more pain. You can never love without forgiving. Forgiveness deepens your ability to love and frees you from pain.” - Kemi Sogunle
“Forgiving doesn’t mean forgetting, it means choosing to remember love instead.” - Klyle Gray
“Forgiveness is the final form of love.” - Reinhold Niebuhr

Quotes About Love and Vulnerability

Who better to talk about vulnerability than Brené Brown herself? Hear from Brené and some other wise folks about vulnerability in love.

"Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity." - Brené Brown
"There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal." - C. S .Lewis.
“The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.” - Paulo Coelho
"We need to rebrand vulnerability and emotion. A vulnerable man is not some weird anomaly. He is open to being hurt, but also open to love." - Grayson Perry
"There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve." - William S. Burroughs

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Religious Quotes About Love

Whether you’re religious, spiritual, a little bit of both, or neither at all, perhaps these quotes help you learn something new about love.

“In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.” - Buddha
"Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth." - 1 Corinthians 13:4-6
“The arrow of the Lord's Love has pierced by mind and body.” - Guru Ram Das Ji
“Love your neighbor as yourself.” - Leviticus 19:18
“You will never enter paradise until you have faith and you will not complete your faith until you love one another.” - Prophet Muhammed

Quotes About Community Love

For these last few sections, let’s talk about love and our relationship with the people around us. We’ll start big, so here are some quotes about love in communities.

“The building of friendship, family, community, and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country no longer supported by tribes and villages.” - Jasmine Guy
“Pride is the community coming together and showing that love is real.” - Taryn Manning
“The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.” - Coretta Scott King
“For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people’s love and concern for each other.” - Millard Fuller
“Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other. It is a sign that we don’t need a lot of money to be happy—in fact, the opposite.” - Jean Vanier

Quotes About Familial Love

Our first unit of community is often our relationship with our families. Check out these quotes below about family love.

“The family is a community of love where each of us learns to relate to others and to the world around us.” - Pope Francis
“In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“If you want to bring happiness to the world, go home and love your family.” - Mother Teresa
“It didn’t matter how big our house was, it mattered that there was love in it.” - Peter Buffett
“Family is not always by blood. It is by heart.” - Soumen Das

Quotes About Platonic Love

Friends may often be our chosen family. Here are some quotes about the importance of friendship and platonic love.

“Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to process all our issues, to cope with differences and conflict while staying connected.” - bell hooks
“The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.” - Chelsea Handler
“Platonic love is love from the neck up.” - Thera Samter Winslow
“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” - Hubert H. Humphrey
“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.”

Quotes About Romantic Love

It may not be the butterflies, but here are some just as beautiful quotes about romantic love.

“Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.” - Marilyn Monroe
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because finally reality is better than your dreams.” - Dr. Seuss
“This is the beauty of finding a partner that you really love and respect, because after all the highs and lows, and ups and downs, we have each other, which makes the journey worth it.” - Michelle Obama
“Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.” - Toni Morrison
“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone—we find it with another.” - Thomas Merton
“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” - Sarah Dessen

Quotes About Self-Love

Second-to-last, but certainly not the least—below are some quotes about loving yourself.

“How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.” - Rupi Kaur
“To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.” - Oscar Wilde
“No other love no matter how genuine it is, can fulfill one’s heart better than unconditional self-love.” - Edmond Mbiaka
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” - Lucille Ball
“Self-love—it doesn’t mean that everyone will treat you the way you deserve to be treated. It means that you won’t let them change the way you see yourself; nor will you stick around for them to destroy you.” - Tony A. Gaskins Jr.
“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.” - Charles Bukowski

Love Quotes from Movies

And finally, some near and dear quotes you may be familiar with from a few of the most popular rom-coms in history.

“So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s gonna be really hard. We’re gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day.” - The Notebook (2004)
"Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while." - The Princess Bride (1987)
“I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” - When Harry Met Sally (1989)
“Our love is like the wind. I can’t see it, but I can feel it.” - A Walk to Remember (2002)
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return.” - Nature Boy by Nat King Cole featured in Moulin Rouge (2001)
“It’s like in that moment the whole universe existed just to bring us together.” - Serendipity (2001)

And one more for good measure—here’s one from everyone’s favorite snowman:

“Some people are worth melting for.” - Olag from Frozen (2013)

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Final Thoughts on Love Quotes

Let’s do a quick check-in with ourselves. How do you feel? Inspired? Calm? Warm? Happy? Maybe they’re not all completely positive emotions, and you find yourself questioning love or wanting to improve relationships in your own life—if so, that’s okay. Sometimes, quotes can help us put our life’s situations in perspective or give us some much-needed words we just needed to hear. We hope you left this article with the words you needed to carry on. May today and all your days be filled with love.

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