A selection of inspirational quotes and excerpts for love, relationships, and grace to inspire you for the month of February 2022 or any other year.
February factoids
It’s common knowledge that February is the love month associated with hearts, flowers, and chocolates. Because of Valentine’s day.
But aside from Valentine’s Day, February is also known as the shortest month of the year. Additionally, the historical term of the Saxons for February is Sol-monath which means “cake month”. This is because they offered cakes to their gods at this time of year.
In addition to these fun facts, the name February also came from the Latin word “februum” meaning purification.
So gathering from these facts, here are 28 inspirational quotes on love, relationships, and grace to celebrate the month of February.
Inspirational Quotes on Love
Love, definitely, is a powerful force. There were grand things accomplished because of this feeling. So here are some timeless and warmhearted quotes for your enjoyment.
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” – Morrie Schwartz
“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou
“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
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” George Sand
“When you adopt the viewpoint that there is nothing that exists that is not part of you, that there is no one who exists who is not part of you, that any judgment you make is self-judgment, that any criticism you level is self-criticism, you will wisely extend to yourself an unconditional love that will be the light of the world.” – Harry Palmer
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” – Khalil Gibran
“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.” – Paulo Coelho
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Famous quote on love
And of course, who can ever forget this most famous quote?
“Tis’ better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
Inspirational Quotes on Relationship
Sometimes a really powerful quote comes along and tugs at your heart. You read your situation in the words and they speak to you. Such is the power of inspirational quotes.
For this reason, these carefully selected quotes will help to guide you in your relationships.
“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing, and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.” – Ann Landers
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” – Mignon McLaughlin
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” – Khalil Gibran
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.” – Nicholas Sparks
“Anyone can love a thing because. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect. – Patrick Rothfuss
“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.” – Henry Winkler
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” – Yoko Ono
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” – Leo Buscaglia
Inspirational Quotes on Grace
In keeping with the fact that February comes from the word purification or cleansing. Here are some inspirational quotes on forgiveness or grace, to rid ourselves of the negative feelings and renew our hearts.
“He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.” – Thomas Fuller
“Forgiveness is the oil of all relationships.” – Anonymous
“Grace comes into the soul, as the morning sun into the world; first a dawning; then a light; and at last the sun in his full and excellent brightness.” – Thomas Adams
“Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day’s chalking.” – Frederick Buechner
“Grace is the very opposite of merit… Grace is not only undeserved favor, but it is favor, shown to the one who has deserved the very opposite.” – Harry Ironside
“By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Grace is a power that comes in and transforms a moment into something better.” – Caroline Myss
“Grace can neither be bought, earned, or won by the creature. If it could be, it would cease to be grace.” – Arthur W. Pink
“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.” – Paul Boose
The greatest of these is love
Of course, I need to add a bonus inspirational quote. A bible verse that captures the essence of love.
1 Corinthians 13:4-13
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.
Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Summary
Undoubtedly, love, relationships, and grace or forgiveness aren’t always easy. But love and relationships provide us with a sense of well-being and purpose. And grace or forgiveness unburdens us from feelings of pain, hurt, or resentment.
As a result, it is important that we cultivate loving relationships and let go of negative feelings that only chain us to the ground. I hope the preceding list of inspirational quotes moved you to honor those who are most important to you.
Do you have additional quotes for February that you want to share? Kindly post them in the comments.
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