--- title: "12 Love Expands Quotes by 11 authors" description: "Browse 12 Love Expands quotes by 11 authors. Discover the best Love Expands sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61c/sri-chinmoy-517_bounds_what-is-love-from-the-spiritual-and-inne_3208230.png" --- > [What is love? From the spiritual and inner point of view, love is self-expansion. Human love binds and is bound. Divine Love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-chinmoy/what-is-love-from-the-spiritual-and-inner-point-of-view-love-is-self/) [Sri Chinmoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sri-chinmoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61c/sri-chinmoy-517_bounds_what-is-love-from-the-spiritual-and-inne_3208230.png) > [Love Gratefully. This love expands your heart into a greater vessel which can hold yet more love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-klemp/love-gratefully-this-love-expands-your-heart-into-a-greater-vessel/) [Harold Klemp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-klemp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2fa/harold-klemp-4722_greater_love-gratefully-this-love-expands-your-h_90277.png) > [“Love expands your soul with something inexplicably fulfilling. If you die without ever having experienced it, you will miss life's only true…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adele-ashworth/love-expands-your-soul-with-something-inexplicably-fulfilling-if-you/) [Adele Ashworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adele-ashworth/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/758/adele-ashworth-45878_life_love-expands-your-soul-with-something-in_2117462.jpg) > [The object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it includes all that is lovely, and we become all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-object-of-love-expands-and-grows-before-us-to-eternity-until-it/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a8/henry-david-thoreau-20_beauty_the-object-of-love-expands-and-grows-bef_1384131.jpg) > [I believe that love expands. As you give love out, it's received and reciprocated and it grows. That's the beauty of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hill-harper/i-believe-that-love-expands-as-you-give-love-out-it-s-received-and/) [Hill Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hill-harper/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/742/hill-harper-3688_beauty_i-believe-that-love-expands-as-you-give_1642975.png) > [“Beliefs shape the size of our opportunities. Love expands them beyond faith.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-sacredfire/beliefs-shape-the-size-of-our-opportunities-love-expands-them-beyond/) [Robin Sacredfire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-sacredfire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af6/robin-sacredfire-1159_faith_beliefs-shape-the-size-of-our-opportunit_2928929.jpg) > [Only love expands intelligence. To live in love is to accept the other and the conditions of his existence as a source…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/humberto-maturana/only-love-expands-intelligence-to-live-in-love-is-to-accept-the-other/) [Humberto Maturana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/humberto-maturana/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d65/humberto-maturana-47431_acceptance_only-love-expands-intelligence-to-live-i_3062409.png) > [Having my son, I mean, I feel already that it makes me a better actress. Just the feeling and the love that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-ambrose/having-my-son-i-mean-i-feel-already-that-it-makes-me-a-better-actress/) [Lauren Ambrose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-ambrose/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f11/lauren-ambrose-18058_actresses_having-my-son-i-mean-i-feel-already-that_1627291.jpg) > [“Just when I think I love you as much as possible, you open your heart to me a little more, and my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olivia-cunning/just-when-i-think-i-love-you-as-much-as-possible-you-open-your-heart/) [Olivia Cunning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olivia-cunning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c99/olivia-cunning-2251_emptiness-inside_just-when-i-think-i-love-you-as-much-as_982720.jpg) > [Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us. Love springs up in tender concern, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kornfield/love-creates-a-communion-with-life-love-expands-us-connects-us/) [Jack Kornfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kornfield/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/647/jack-kornfield-936_action_love-creates-a-communion-with-life-love_1419514.jpg) > [Becoming a father increases your capacity for love and your level of patience. It opens up another door in a person -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kyle-maclachlan/becoming-a-father-increases-your-capacity-for-love-and-your-level-of/) [Kyle MacLachlan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kyle-maclachlan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83c/kyle-maclachlan-8546_another_becoming-a-father-increases-your-capacit_1187525.png) > [“I thought I knew what love was, that I understood its depth, its importance, its beauty and the happiness and the heartache…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olivia-cunning/i-thought-i-knew-what-love-was-that-i-understood-its-depth-its/) [Olivia Cunning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olivia-cunning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13d/olivia-cunning-2251_beauty_i-thought-i-knew-what-love-was-that-i-un_1508199.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/love-expands/#itemlist", "name": "Love Expands Quotes", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "What is love? 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