30 Greatest Quotes About Love — From Shakespeare to Modern Day

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return."

Eden Ahbez, "Nature Boy"

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."

Attributed to Dr. Seuss

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

Aristotle

"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."

David Viscott

"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other."

Audrey Hepburn

"Where there is love there is life."

Mahatma Gandhi

"Love is not about how many days, months, or years you have been together. Love is about how much you love each other every single day."

Unknown

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

Lao Tzu

"Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own."

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"We accept the love we think we deserve."

Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."

Martin Luther King Jr.

"The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more."

Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

Hermann Hesse

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."

Maya Angelou