Love and happiness are universal pursuits, and they often inspire some of the most profound thoughts and expressions. This article explores these themes through various lenses, offering quotes that capture the essence of love in its diverse forms and the joy that radiates from happiness. From the wisdom of ancient philosophers to contemporary thinkers, these curated quotes serve as both guidance and inspiration. Each set of quotes is designed to resonate with different aspects of life, encouraging readers to reflect on their own journeys and connections. Dive into this collection, let these words ignite your spirit, and discover the beauty of love and happiness anew.
Quotes about Eternal Love
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." - Aristotle
"In the end, love you take is equal to the love you make." - Paul McCartney
"I am yours, don’t give yourself back to me." - Rumi
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows not." - Blaise Pascal
"Love recognizes no barriers." - Maya Angelou
"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." - Emily Brontë
"Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live." - Tom Wolfe
"Grow old with me, the best is yet to be." - Robert Browning
"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." - David Viscott
"All you need is love." - John Lennon
"True love stories never have endings." - Richard Bach
"Love is a promise; love is a souvenir." - John Lennon
Quotes about Happiness in Life
"The purpose of our lives is to be happy." - Dalai Lama
"Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions." - Dalai Lama
"For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters." - Audrey Hepburn
"Happiness depends upon ourselves." - Aristotle
"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears." - John Lennon
"Happiness is a warm puppy." - Charles M. Schulz
"The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open." - Chuck Palahniuk
"The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up." - Mark Twain
"Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have." - Rabbi Hyman Schachtel
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success." - Albert Schweitzer
"If you want to be happy, be." - Leo Tolstoy
Quotes about Love and Friendship
"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you." - Elbert Hubbard
"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate." - Linda Grayson
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." - Walter Winchell
"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'" - C.S. Lewis
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world." - Leo Buscaglia
"True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable." - David Tyson
"Some souls just understand each other upon meeting." - N.R. Hart
"Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness." - Euripides
"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed." - Khalil Gibran
"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together." - Woodrow T. Wilson
"There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met." - William Butler Yeats
Quotes about Self-Love
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance." - Oscar Wilde
"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." - Buddha
"Self-love is not so vile a sin as self-neglect." - William Shakespeare
"This above all: to thine own self be true." - William Shakespeare
"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line." - Lucille Ball
"Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do." - Brené Brown
"You yourself deserve your love and affection." - Buddha
"The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself." - Steve Maraboli
"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
"Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others." - Brené Brown
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde
"Self-care is giving the world the best you instead of what’s left of you." - Katie Reed
Quotes on Family Love
"Family is not an important thing, it’s everything." - Michael J. Fox
"The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege." - Charles Kuralt
"A happy family is but an earlier heaven." - George Bernard Shaw
"Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten." - David Ogden Stiers
"Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life." - Albert Einstein
"The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family." - Lee Iacocca
"Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst." - Marjorie Pay Hinckley
"The family is one of nature’s masterpieces." - George Santayana
"When all the dust is settled and all the crowds are gone, the things that matter are faith, family, and friends." - Barbara Bush
"The most important thing in the world is family and love." - John Wooden
"In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Family: where life begins and love never ends." - Unknown
Quotes about Romantic Love
"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." - Audrey Hepburn
"We are most alive when we’re in love." - John Updike
"The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love." - Henry Miller
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." - David Viscott
"Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." - Victor Hugo
"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller
"Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; love is a flower, you've got to let it grow." - John Lennon
"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." - Mignon McLaughlin
"You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." - Dr. Seuss
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao Tzu
Quotes on Happiness and Contentment
"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present." - Jim Rohn
"Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed." - Unknown
"The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony." - V.S. Pritchett
"True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." - Helen Keller
"It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy." - Lucille Ball
"Happiness is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty without happiness." - Christian Dior
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." - Marcus Aurelius
"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty." - Socrates
"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be." - Abraham Lincoln
"Happiness is homemade." - Unknown
"Contentment is the only real wealth." - Alfred Nobel
"Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom." - Benjamin Franklin
Quotes on Unconditional Love
"To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return." - Madonna
"Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one." - A.J. Jacobs
"The greatest act of courage is to be and to own all of who you are—without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are." - Debbie Ford
"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive." - Dalai Lama
"Love is unconditional when it is given without expecting anything in return." - Unknown
"Unconditional love is the greatest gift of all." - Sylvia Massara
"Love is made up of three unconditional properties: acceptance, understanding, and appreciation." - Unknown
"The only way love can last a lifetime is if it’s unconditional." - Stephen Kendrick
"The best kind of love is the one that comes unexpectedly and without asking anything in return." - Unknown
"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained." - C.S. Lewis
"Unconditional love, agape love, will bring lasting peace and joy." - Russ Harris
"A gift such as your unconditional love must never be wasted." - Truth Devour
Quotes about Love and Sacrifice
"To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life." - Elizabeth Gilbert
"There is no remedy for love but to love more." - Henry David Thoreau
"Love is not love until love’s vulnerable." - Theodore Roethke
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao Tzu
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." - Peter Ustinov
"The greatest sacrifice is when you sacrifice your own happiness for the sake of someone else." - Unknown
"In love, the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two." - Erich Fromm
"Love is sacrifice. Love is selflessness. Love is pure." - Megan Huong
"We loved with a love that was more than love." - Edgar Allen Poe
"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet." - Plato
"Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." - Franklin P. Jones
"Love seeks not itself to please, nor for itself have any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair." - William Blake
Quotes about the Happiness of Being Loved
"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." - David Viscott
"Being loved deeply by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao Tzu
"The best feeling in the world is being cared for by the one you love." - Unknown
"Love and being loved is the greatest happiness of existence." - Sydney Smith
"I love being loved by you." - Unknown
"There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved." - George Sand
"We are shaped and fashioned by those we love." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved." - Victor Hugo
"Being loved is the most powerful happiness in life." - Unknown
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved." - Victor Hugo
"Someone to love, something to do, something to hope for." - Chinese Proverb
"In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities." - János Arany
Final words
The exploration of love and happiness through these quotes illuminates the universal truth that these two forces define the essence of human experience. Love, in its many forms—romantic, familial, platonic, and self—serves as a refuge and a source of strength. Happiness, meanwhile, is both a journey and a state of being, often intricately linked with the love we give and receive. The wisdom embedded in these quotes transcends time and culture, offering a reminder that love and happiness are ever-present pillars in our lives. As you reflect on these sayings, may you find inspiration to nurture your relationships and cultivate inner peace and joy. Let these quotes be a catalyst for action, guiding you towards a life filled with love, happiness, and fulfillment.
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