70+ Spread Love Quotes The World Needs to Hear Right Now

Published February 4, 2022
As a famous saying goes: love makes the world go round. And with everything that’s going on around the world today, that couldn’t be more true. We can all agree that the world would be so much better if we can just learn to love each other.
Yes, it’s not easy to spread love. The older you get, the harder it is to trust – much less love – others. But that’s the essence of loving someone. You don’t love them because of who they are or because they love you back. You love because you are capable of love.
Also, according to science, people who spread love tend to be happier and have a more optimistic view of life. This helps them better connect with people and form meaningful relationships. In short, when you spread love, that love comes back to you in multifold.
So rather than spreading hate, let’s plant seeds of love wherever we go. We already have a lot of the former and look where it took us. Maybe it’s time to try the latter.
How Can We Spread Love?
There are countless ways to spread love around us. Even simple acts like the following are already big steps in the right direction:
- help the less fortunate
- volunteer at a charity
- say kind words to the people you meet
- give to a good cause
- be kind even to rude people
- give lunch or care packages to a homeless person
- smile more often
- be a good listener for someone
- encourage someone who is going through a tough time
Above all, you need to love yourself. After all, you can’t pour from an empty cup. For the love to spread, it must start within yourself.
(Related: How to Show Empathy in 12 Simple Ways)

Spread Love Quotes to Inspire the World
If you’re looking for more inspiration, here are quotes about spreading love that the world can learn a thing or two from:
- The only thing we never get enough of is love, and the only thing we never give enough of is love. – Henry Miller
- Love recognizes no barriers. – Maya Angelou
- When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. – Jimi Hendrix
- Love is not about property, diamonds, and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you. – Pablo Neruda
- Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. – Mother Teresa
- Love is the most powerful healing energy. Everything you do with love spreads healing. So feel it, be it, and spread it. – Abishek Kumar
- Love can be spread from within you to outside, not from outside to within you. – P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
- Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do. – David Wilkerson
- Joy is, in fact, quite contagious. As is love, compassion, and generosity. – Dalai Lama
- There are innumerable languages in our world. But the only one that can connect people with each other is the language of love. – Avijeet Das
- Where there is great love, there are always miracles. – Willa Cather
- I love everybody and they, in turn, love everybody, and that’s spreading love heart to heart to heart. That’s the approach of my work. – Ram Dass
- Spread love wherever you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. – Mother Teresa
- To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness. – Mary Stuart
- Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. – Karl Menninger
- Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. – Robert A. Heinlein
- Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. – Lao Tzu
- Love does not dominate; it cultivates. – John Wolfgang von Goethe
- A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. – Joseph Joubert
- I may not be able to fill someone else but I have a responsibility to empty myself with the hope that it fills someone else. I may not be able to light up someone’s lamp but I also have the responsibility of shinning my light with the hope that it lights someone else. – Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
- Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. – Maxim Work
- Every day could be your last, so share your love far and wide with everyone you adore. – Amy Leigh Mercree
- Love is like paint – you can’t spread even a little without getting some on yourself. – Wayne L. Misner
- Overcome the devils with a thing called love. – Bob Marley
- Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world. – Wayne Dyer
- If we could spread love as quickly as we spread hate and negativity, what an amazing world we would live in. – Unknown
- Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the one thing hated. – George MacDonald
- If people would love with the intensity they use to hate, the world would be a better place. – Unknown
- For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time; hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule. – Friedrich Max Muller
- When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. – Mahatma Gandhi
- Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. – Desmond Tutu
- Connect. Embrace. Liberate. Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You’ll see the difference it makes. – Oprah Winfrey
- The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. – Morrie Schwartz
- The only thing that really matters is spreading love and light and acceptance and unity throughout the entire world in any way that you possibly can. – Willow Smith
- Don’t teach anyone to control anger, teach everyone to spread love and not to spread anger. – P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
- We came to this world with love and hope to bloom like a flower, to beautify this garden we call earth and spread the fragrance of happiness. – Debasish Midra
- The giving of love is an education in itself. – Eleanor Roosevelt
- They do not love that do not show their love. – William Shakespeare
- Plant love, let it sprout. – H.S. Crow
- And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something. – Mother Teresa
- Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. – Leo Buscaglia
- The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart. – Hellen Killer
- There will never be no love at all. – Bob Marley
- Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. – Oscar Wilde
- Spread the light of your love through the magic of smile. – Debasish Mridha
- To hate is an easy lazy thing but to love takes strength everyone has but not all are willing to practice. – Rupi Kaur
- Our life changes the moment we choose love over hate! – Avijeet Das
- Be nice to people… maybe it’ll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love anyway. We rise by lifting others. – Germany Kent
- Our world needs more loving hearts. – Avijeet Das
- Spread love not hate so that we can die in peace. – AKA
- Love is, in fact, an intensification of life, a completeness, a fullness, a wholeness of life. – Thomas Merton
- Animals don’t hate and we’re supposed to be better than them. – Elvis Presley
- Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in this world, but has not solved one yet. – Maya Angelou
- 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
- It doesn’t really matter whether we reflect the light through our authentic gifts or whether our authentic calling is to spread it. What matters is that tonight is that the world is dark, cold, and bleak. Your flame burns so brightly. Share your love and warmth with others. Watch the light return. – Sarah Ban Breathnach
- My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful, and optimistic. And we’ll change the world. – Jack Layton
- Spread love to the north, kindness to the south, compassion to the east, and goodness to the west. Spread love throughout the whole world. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. – Mother Teresa
- We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone. – Ronald Reagan
- There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier. – Melissa Etheridge
- Let the love you give come back and find a place in you. – Harpreet M. Dayal
- A loving heart is the truest wisdom. – Charles Dickens
- When we feel love and kindness toward others, if not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. – Dalai Lama
- Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are. – Harold Kushner
- A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. – Max Muller
- The purpose of life is to be happy and then spread the fragrance of happiness to enhance the beauty of life. – Debasish Mridha
- Every day is a great day to give love, spread joy, and SPARKLE! – Sheri Fink
- Do good. Spread love. Embrace all. Hurt none. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- To spread love, healing, peace, and joy is my mission in life – and so I speak up. – Inda Arie
- People talk about love and it seems like a cliche but it’s a real thing – the more love we spread around the world the more it’s going to change lives. – Ben Vereen
- In this world of hate, there has to be a light. Be that light and spread some love. Maybe this day the youth can make a difference. No more hate! – Christofer Drew
- All we have is today. Just live it. We don’t know about tomorrow. So, enjoy the day. Love yourself, and spread love around. – Charlotte Rae
- Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world. – Lawrence G. Lovasik
- There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. – George Sand
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