It’s hard to think about falling in love again after heartbreak.
Many people want to quit love because they might get hurt or have had bad past relationships. Who wants to feel pain AGAIN, right?
But falling in love can be a wonderful journey despite the risks. Being in love feels amazing, and knowing someone truly cares about you is special. Don’t quit! Your right match might be closer than you think.
If a part of you still wants love, but your past keeps holding you back, these words might help you. Quotes can push us to act. At least, they give us hope through kind words.
So, here are 121 ready to love again quotes that speak to the part of you that’s still open, still brave, and still longing for something real.
Uplifting Ready to Love Again Quotes (Healing Hearts Speak)
1. “Loving again isn’t easy, but my heart tells me it’s time to try.”
2. “I’ve traded fear for faith in finding love again.”
3. “Flowers grow back. Even after the harshest winters, you will too.” — Jennae Cecelia
4. “It’s hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.” — Eric Kripke
5. “Sometimes we have to stop being scared and just go for it. Either it’ll work or it won’t. That is life.” — Alex Elle
6. “. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.” — Rebecca Walker
7. “Keep walking through the storm. Your rainbow is waiting on the other side.” — Heather Stillufsen
8. “If you didn’t love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.” — Sarah Dessen
9. “Yesterday’s pain made me stronger. Today, I choose to love again.”
10. “Even now – in the final hour of my life – I’m falling in love again.” — Steven Morrissey
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11. “I believe we recover from loss by facing the loss, grieving, going deep inside ourselves (hopefully with a guide) and re-emerging to live and love again.” — Francesca Lia Block
12. “Make him smile with your clothes on, makeup off, and true personality. That’s real.” — Unknown
13. “When we do what we love, again and again, our life comes to hold the fragrance of that thing.” — Wayne Muller
14. “In the future… if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again… fall in love with me.” He presses his lips against my forehead. “You’re still my favorite person, Lily. Always will be.” — Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us
15. “I’ve put down the weight of past heartbreak. Now I’m light enough to fly toward love.”
16. “I have loved deeply. I have lost intensely. I will never love again. I get that love by people who care for me.” — Richard Simmons
17. “The tears have dried, and I see clearly now what kind of love I deserve.”
18. “I love when I see old people together because it makes me believe that true love exists.” — Unknown
19. “If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical you’ve got it half licked.” — Henry Miller
20. “Getting even with the person that broke your heart will never give you peace. The only thing that will heal your wounds is believing that God loves you enough to bring someone else into your life to respect you and love you in the way you deserve!” — Shannon L. Alder
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21. “Love like there’s no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.” — Max Lucado
22. “The heart is, truly, the source of love. The proof is that if you remove it from someone, they will almost certainly never love again.” — Zero Mostel
23. “Fear kept me locked away, but hope finally gave me the key to love again.”
24. “To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you’ll need to carry on.” — Simon Van Booy
25. “My heart whispers that it’s time to trust someone new with its beat.”
26. “We like, we cherish, we are very, very fond of—but we never love again.” — Jerome K. Jerome
27. “Ever since I met you.. you’ve had this effect on me. You’ve been able to make me feel ways I thought I would never be able to feel again.” — T.K. Chapin
28. “You can’t control everything. Sometimes you just need to relax and have faith things will work out. Let go a little and let life happen.” — Kody Keplinger
29. “I would like to fall in love again but my only hope is that love doesn’t happen to me so often after this. I don’t want to get so used to falling in love that I get curious to experience something more extreme – whatever that may be.” — Douglas Coupland
30. “I’ve swept away the ashes of what burned down. Time to build something beautiful.”
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31. “‘If I Should Love Again’ – I was just so impressed with myself writing something like that. It wasn’t a single and people didn’t really know about it, but it’s a beautiful song and that’s part of what I’m loving.” — Barry Manilow
32. “I’ve found peace within myself, making room for love to enter again.”
33. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” — Lucille Ball
34. “I’ve found strength in being alone and courage in being ready not to be.”
35. “There is always madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
36. “I’ve found my smile again, and I’d like to share it with someone special.”
37. “But then you make eye contact with someone across the room and it clicks and you’re right there in love again.” — Taylor Swift
38. “The walls around my heart have windows now, letting light and love in.”
39. “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” — Alexander Graham Bell
40. “My heart speaks softer now but loves deeper than before.”
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41. “Let there be sunshine, let there be rain, let the broken hearted love again.” — Bruce Springsteen
42. “I’ve learned that some goodbyes lead to better hellos.”
43. “It’s okay to be scared, but you have to go out there, open up, love, make mistakes, learn, be stronger, and start all over again.” — Unknown
44. “Love left, but it taught me how to make space for something even truer.”
45. “I shudder at the thought of men…. I’m due to fall in love again.” — Dorothy Parker
46. “Time didn’t just heal my wounds, it prepared me for deeper love.”
47. “You are confusing plumbing and love again.” — Robin Hobb
48. “My heart has healed, not to what it was, but to what it should be.”
49. “Don’t be afraid to fall in love again. Open your heart and follow where it leads you…and remember, shoot for the moon.” — Cecelia Ahern
50. “Keep going. Everything you need will come to you at the perfect time.” — Unknown
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51. “The greatest act of courage is not falling in love. But, despite everything, falling in love again.” — Robin Wayne Bailey
52. “The fact that you can love something that you’ve lost is all the incentive you need to love again, as opposed to becoming comfortably numb.” — Cee Lo Green
53. “The key to my heart was never lost, just waiting for the right lock.”
54. “Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” — Oprah Winfrey
55. “My heart remembers how to love. It was just waiting for the right time.”
56. “If I ever fall in love again, I would like it if it were a slightly cold guy. Someone who won’t constantly mind about my childish needs but who, the day after the quarrel, for example would offer me a flower accompanied by a sweet note That’s kind of guy I need.” — Ai Yazawa
57. “I’ve stopped wearing my hurt like armor and started wearing hope like a crown.”
58. “I’ve learned that time heals, but love fulfills. I’m ready to be filled again.”
59. “You’re terrified of being alone. Anything you do now will be motivated by that fear. You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come when it comes. Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you.” — Jonathan Tropper
60. “I’ve learned what I need and what I deserve. Now I’m ready to find it.”
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61. “There’s nothing more beautiful than a person whose heart has been broken but still believes in love.” — Unknown
62. “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” — Oscar Wilde
63. “I’m ready to share my journey with someone who walks at my pace.”
64. “For it is the nature of people to love, then destroy, then love again that which they value most.” — Neale Donald Walsch
65. “Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again.” — Nicholas Sparks
66. “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.” — JK Rowling
67. “I’ve learned that some loves aren’t meant to last, but that doesn’t mean I’ll stop trying.”
68. “I found a girl, fell in love, she had a baby, and I fell in love again.” —Johnny Depp
69. “I’ve learned that endings make way for better beginnings.”
70. “My heart beats stronger now, ready to dance with someone who can keep up.”
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71. “First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.” — Maya Angelou
72. “A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.” —Theodore Zeldin
73. “Never lose hope, and if you can, find the courage to love again.” — Danielle Steel
74. “Love found me once. I believe it will find its way back to me again.”
75. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” — Marcus Aurelius
76. “Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more. And those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.” — Merle Shain
77. “My heart has created a new space, waiting for the right person to fill it.”
78. “We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight.” — Richard Bach
79. “One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.” — Judith Viorst
80. “I’ve stopped looking back at what hurt me and started looking forward to what will heal me.”
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81. “Keep walking through the storm. Your rainbow is waiting on the other side.” — Heather Stillufsen
82. “My heart is not afraid anymore. It’s eager to feel love’s warmth again.”
83. “The better person you become the better person you will person.” — Unknown
84. “I won’t let one storm keep me from sailing toward love again.”
85. “Being hurt should not stop us on loving again. Always remember that better things are yet to come in our life.” — Unknown
86. “I’ve learned that loving again isn’t starting over—it’s moving forward.”
87. “Never think that what you have to offer is insignificant. There will always be someone out there who needs what you have to give.” — Unknown
88. “The pieces of my heart fit together differently now, making room for someone new.”
89. “We’re not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again.” — Pink
90. “I’ve stopped asking ‘why me’ and started asking ‘who’s next’.”
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91. “If today were your last, would you do what you’re doing? Or would you love more, give more, forgive more? Then do so! Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity. Love like there’s no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.” — Max Lucado
92. “The book of my past love story ended, but I’m excited to write a new chapter.”
93. “Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.” — Steve Maraboli
94. “It’s okay to be scared, but you have to go out there, open up, love, make mistakes, learn, be stronger, and start all over again.” — Unknown
95. “My heart knows now what it needs, and it’s brave enough to seek it.”
96. “It’s never too late for a new beginning in your life.” — Joyce Meyers
97. “I’m ready to trust not just someone else, but myself in love again.”
98. “Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.” — Unknown
99. “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” — Morrie Schwartz
100. “Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.” — Al Franken
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101. “The greatest act of courage is not falling in love but, despite everything, falling in love again.” — Robin Wayne Bailey
102. “The love we give away is the only love we keep.” — Elbert Hubbard
103. “I choose to see the end of one love as the beginning of something even better.”
104. “We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” — Joseph Campbell
105. “Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning… Anyone can start over and make a new ending.” — Chico Xavier
106. “To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.” — Henry Miller
107. “Fearless is falling madly in love again, even though you’ve been hurt before.” — Taylor Swift
108. “I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.” — Rumi
109. “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” — Khalil Gibran
110. “The garden of my heart is blooming again, ready for someone to appreciate its beauty.”
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111. “I choose you. And I’ll choose you over and over and over. Without pause, without a doubt, in a heartbeat. I’ll keep choosing you.” — Unknown
112. “Don’t try to rush things that need time to grow.” — Unknown
113. “We were together I forget the rest.” — Walt Whitman
114. “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” — Paulo Coelho
115. “It’s okay to be scared. But you have to get out there, open up, love, make mistakes, learn, be stronger. And start all over again.”
116. “You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters?” — Bob Marley
117. “I’ve stopped looking back. The view ahead shows new chances for love.”
118. “The best love story is when you fall in love with the most unexpected person at the most unexpected time.” — Unknown
119. “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form.” — Rumi
120. “Sometimes all you have to do is forget what you feel and remember what you deserve.” — Unknown
121. “Each day without you got easier. Now I’m ready for days filled with someone new.”
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