Whether its your partner scrunching their face up at your bad joke, children playing with each other or the knowing smile of an old friend, those are the small moments that life is made up of.
Cute moments have a spell-binding effect wherever they come from, be it through love, friendship or charity.
They’ve inspired poets, writers and musicians to make beautiful reflections about their effect on the heart and soul.
To honor those moments we’ve gathered 16 cute quotes onLove, to reignite those memories and inspire you to seek out more. Perfect for sharing with loved ones.
1. Herman Hesse on Love
If I know what love is, it is because of you. ~ Hermann Hesse
Everyone likes to talk about love, but until we have loved ourselves, all the talk in the world remains an exercise in abstract thinking. Love does not fit in a concept or in an idea. It is a profound experience that can only become real as it is lived. When we love someone, that person becomes the embodiment of love and that is when you know that love actually exists. Love is not something that comes to us, but something that grows within us.
2. Bill Wilson on Love
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you are the world. ~ Bill Wilson
Every day of your lives we meet an amazing number of people. On the street, in a shop, in a restaurant, at work. People are everywhere, yet how difficult it is for us to think of each passerby as a unique personality, as someone with their own problems, desires, and goals, with a family and friends. It is even more troubling when we think that for them, we are just a nameless passerby. This is why love is such an incredible force of life. It crashes all the walls and builds bridges and one person can become an entire world.
3. Ray Croft on Love
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. ~ Ray Croft
The best kind of love is the love that inspires us to reach our ideal self, to polish all of the asperities of our being so we can feel worthy of the amazing person who stole our heart. Loves changes us and shapes us in new molds, showing the parts of ourselves that we didn’t they exist. The best kind of love is not an egotistical isolation in pleasure, but an openness that allows beings to flow towards each other without obstacles.
4. Winnie the Pooh on Love and Loss
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. ~ Winnie the Pooh
Worse than having never loved is losing your love. When we’ve never been in love, we don’t know that there is another way of being, a marvelous and exciting way in which life becomes a soulful adventure that we take with our soul mates. That is why by loving we understand the powerful impact love can have. After we’ve known love, we cannot live without it. When you’ve lost someone you love, a part of your soul is slowly dying and you are left to witness this slowly, torturous disintegration.
5. Victor Hugo on Love
Life is the flower for which love is the honey. ~ Victor Hugo
It is difficult to imagine what our lives would be like without love. We would feel lonely, and maybe many of our struggles would seem futile and meaningless. In the light of love, all the riches of life become real and accessible. Life is important to us because it creates love. Most importantly, life can fill with love all its cracks and all its empty spaces. In love we feel the safest and the most fortunate.
6. Shannon Dermott on Love and Meaning
You’re like a dictionary, you add meaning to my life. ~ Shannon Dermott
Love does not give us the meaning of life. Love is just a medium that helps us explore the meaning that we hold within us. Loves allows us to go to those regions of the soul where everything is pure, beautiful, and purposeful. After discovering that part of ourselves, we realize that meaning is growing beyond our own, individualistic self. We give ourselves to the person we love only to realize that we are more rich when giving. The person we love becomes the key with which we understand and see ourselves.
7. Leo Tolstoy on Love and Knowledge
All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love. ~ Leo Tolstoy
There is knowledge outside love, but it is never a complete type of knowledge. It is always lacking, always creating more questions. Love, on the opposite, does not create questions, yet it provides answers. When we love we begin to understand and as our love grows, so does our understanding. The reason is that love speaks to the soul, not to the mind which is always doubtful. When we love, we become more tolerant, more accepting, and then is when truth can reach us.
8. Kermit the Frog on Love
Maybe you don’t need the whole world to love you, you know. Maybe you just need one person. ~ Kermit the Frog
We are always seeking success, love, admiration, and appreciation, but it is an impossible quest to try to please everyone, hoping that they give us what we seek for. We become unauthentic when we want everyone to like us and love us. Only when we show ourselves exactly how we are we are able to attract those who are like us and who complement us. The love of a dear person is a thousand times stronger than the love of an anonymous crowd.
9. Albert Einstein on Love
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. ~ Albert Einstein
If we respect our love, we let it consume us feverishly. If we don’t do things wholeheartedly it is would better to not do them at all. Love does not deserve half measures, considering how much it gives us. When we kiss, laugh, or touch we should be there fully present, absorbing the uniqueness of the moment and appreciating it. A careless love is not love at all, because love makes everything fade away except the moment that captures you and your loved one in its embrace.
10. On Love and Romance
If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I’d be picking roses for a lifetime. ~ Swedish Proverb
From the moment we have fallen in love, we have no more power over our minds. Our minds gravitate freely towards the same center, which is the person we love. We don’t want to be separated from the person we love, we want him or her always with us, so we trick our minds to search for that person in imagination, in daydreams, and in memories. A person in love is never lonely. Their loved one is always besides them, like a shadow.
11. Mother Teresa on Love
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. ~ Mother TeresaSmiles are traded everyday everywhere in the world. It is the most common exchanged value between people who are friends, acquaintances, or just strangers. Smiles don’t belong to a culture or a language. They are free and infinite, so we can give them away as much as we like to everyone we want. Moreover, smiles are invaluable. Just with a turn of expression, we can show kindness, tenderness, affection, and openness as if we would open the gates to our heart.
12. Charles Schultz on Love and Chocolate
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt. ~ Charles Schulz
We all want unconditional, boundless love, but life does not work so simple. We hope and dream, but sometimes we must learn to embrace the small gifts before being able to accept and appreciate the big ones. Before we meet love, we can acquaintance ourselves with other important aspects such as pleasure, comfort, or desire. Life is an array of experiences of different sizes and with different meanings, so while waiting for love, we can use our time exploring this richness of experience that life provides us.
13. Ritu Ghatourey on Love
If you ever ask me how many times you’ve crossed my mind, I would say once. Because you came, and never left. ~ Ritu Ghatourey
When we are in love we are never really alone. We carry the image of the loved one within us. The person we love lives and travels with us, even if only just as a thought or a dream. They accompany our solitude and populate our minds with scenes of happiness, intimacy, and comfort. Once a person has settled a home in your heart, it takes many earthquakes for that home to shatter. Sometimes, it lasts forever.
14. William M. Thackeray on Love and Paradise
When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Paradise does not exist by itself in same hidden, faraway place. It is something that appears and disappears by magic. When we love we find paradise more often. It is easy to reach and always with its gates open. Paradise is built in the space between us and our loved ones, where feelings such as affection, adoration, dedication, and passion grow boundless. In that space, every gesture and word that comes to us is just another face of happiness.
15. Colette on Love and Wisdom
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise. ~ Colette
We all aspire towards wisdom, seeing it as a filter through which we can better connect with life and extract its riches. Becoming wise is a long and difficult process that must include a vast array of real life experiences, both positive and negative. The simplest way for us to embark on the road to wisdom is being happy and working towards our happiness. Using our need for happiness as a guide is one way of embracing wisdom.
16. Joseph Campbell on Love and Friendship
Love is a friendship set to music. ~ Joseph Campbell
Love and friendship are linked to each other in very mysterious ways. We know, however, that a great love begins in friendship, yet it is more than that. Friendship means connection, while love means connection, dedication, and passion put together. Love is always too complex to convey through words. Exactly like music, it is a sort of soulful journey that connects us to a transcendental beauty and lets us explore all the depths of feeling and emotion.