Quotes About Finding Love

These quotes about finding love are easily accessible nuggets of insight offered by famous scholars, writers, philosophers and celebrities. These relevant words can be used to help make sense of the often-maddening feelings that romance and relationships instill within us.

1. “Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”Sam Keen, an American author, professor and philosopher and contributing editor of “Psychology Today” of 20 years, sums up the ideal perspective of finding love with this quote.
2. “Those that go searching for love, only manifest their own lack of love. And the loveless never find love, only the loving find love. And they never have to seek for it. ”The infamous British Victorian author D.H. Lawrence gives these who are seeking love a harsh reality check, telling them they need to somehow embody what they are searching for within themselves first.
3. “We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.” Experimental American author Tom Robbins advices you take control of your own ability to create love instead of letting it create you and your perceptions.
4. “And think not you can direct the course of love—for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.” Lebanese-American poet and author Khalil Gibran, writer of “The Prophet”, attributes finding love as a somewhat wild force beyond your control, and something that comes to you when you are ready.
5. “Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.” Journalist and author Helen Rowland, a trove of sentimental and humorous quotes about love and relationships, believes that feelings of love need to need to be free from the inhibitions of logic and the mind.
6. “People who are sensible about love are incapable of finding it.” Racer Douglas Yates believes that the mind and heart are incompatible when it comes to love and gives the heart precedence when it comes to this complicated subject.
7. “Maybe love is like luck. You have to go all the way to find it.” Film-noir actor Robert Mitchum’s humorous and truthful saying about love claims that journey is just as important as the goal when searching for romance.
8. “The art of love... is largely the art of persistence.” American psychologist and father of cognitive-behavioral therapy Albert Ellis was also renowned as an instigator of the American sexual revolution in the 60’s; more than likely the sexologist used this quote as the cure-all for sexual frustration.
9. “The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to find love and be loved in return.” It’s no surprise that bucolic and influencer of the beatnik and hippie-movement Eden Ahbez was known for his love-perpetuating philosophies.
10. “When a man finds love or debt, someone else has the advantage.” Radio host and journalist Bill Balance’s truism demonstrates that love appears to be something usually beyond one’s locus of control and therefore, puts the lover at stake.