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In the midst of all the chaos in the world, love makes life worth living. It softens the hardest of hearts and brightens a dull day.
Whether it’s Valentines Day, your anniversary or you need some sweet, warm affirmations to brighten a dull day or help you believe in love again after a tough break-up, here is a perfect round-up of the best love quotes.
- “I love you not only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you.” -Roy Croft
- “Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.”- A.A. Milne
- “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you … I could walk through my garden forever.”- Alfred Tennyson
- “Every heart sings a song, incomplete until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.” – Plato
- “You know its love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.”— Julia Roberts
- “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride.” – Pablo Neruda
- “Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.”— Lao Tzu
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“True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.” – Honore de Balzac
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- “We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” – Sam Keen
- “Love is tough. Love survives through the worst of situations and thrives through hope. Even when things seem hopeless love will find its way.” – Malika E. Nura
- “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” – James Baldwin
- “One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love!” – Sophocles
- “Love is like the wind, you can’t see it, but you can feel it” – Nicholas Sparks
- “Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.” – Lamartine
- “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
- “The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.” – Blaise Pascal
- ”Sometimes I think I need a spare heart to feel all the things I feel.” – Sanober Khan
- “Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.” — Bob Marley
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“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” — William Shakespeare
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- “To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.” — Madonna
- “If you just believe in me, I will love you endlessly.” — Mariah Carey
- “When someone else’s happiness is your happiness. That is love.” — Lana del Ray
- “Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.” — A. J. Jacobs
- “Quite simply it is love. It is the unconditional love that says, regardless of what you do or where you go, I will always be there for you.” — Elijah Wood
- “One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.” — Paulo Coelho
- “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou
- “Intense love does not measure, it just gives.” — Mother Teresa
- “Don’t do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul.” — Henry Rollins
- “Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.” — Soren Kierkegaard
- “Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.” — Leo Buscaglia
- “Love? What is love? Love is to love someone for who they are, who they were, and who they will be.” — Chris Moore
- “Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.” – Mary Oliver
- “To give and not expect a return, that is what lies at the heart of love.” — Oscar Wilde
- “When we love there is no reason why.” — Vanna Bonta
- “Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.” — Ralph Connor
- “Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“I have found the paradox that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” — Mother Teresa
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- “Love means never having to say you’re sorry. “– Ali MacGraw
- “The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your action will be.” – Dalai Lama XIV
- “Love is something eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you are the world.” – Bill Wilson
- I love you, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “Love is a friendship set to music.”— Joseph Campbell
- “You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I’ve ever had.” – Nicolas Sparks
- “When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.”— Blaise Pascal
- “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse
- “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller
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“You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss
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- “To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.” – Valerie Lombardo
- “My love for you is past the mind, beyond my heart, and into my soul.” – Kodjoe
- “I will never be perfect for you, but I will always imperfectly try to be.” – Atticus
- “Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “Love understands love; it needs no talk.” – Francis Havergal
- “Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.” – James Baldwin
- “Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.” – Felix Adler
- “I know of no greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, without end.” – Franz Kafka
- “Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age.” – Jeanne Moreau
- “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
- “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” – Victor Hugo
- “Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.” – Gary Zukav
- “The minute I heard my first love story – I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere – they’re in each other all along.” – Rumi
- “To love unconditionally requires no contracts, bargains, or agreements. Love exists in the moment-to-moment flux of life.” – Marion Woodman
- “I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.” – Hobbes
- “If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.” – Anais Nin
- “Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn’t sentimental. It doesn’t have to be pretty, yet it doesn’t deny pain.” – Sharon Salzberg
- “That Love is all there is, is all we know of Love.” – Emily Dickinson
- “There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.” – Lorraine Hansberry
- “Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.” – Barbara De Angelis
- “Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.” – Ben Hecht
- “Love is my religion — I could die for that — I could die for you. My creed is love and you are its only tenet.” – John Keats
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“I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
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- “I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.” – Angelita Lim
- “There is a madness in loving you, a lack of reason that makes it feel so flawless.” – Leo Christopher
- “I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.” – Leo Christopher
- “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” – A. A. Milne
- “Do you love me because I’m beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?” – Oscar Hammerstein, II
- “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” – Morrie Schwartz
- “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”- Oscar Wilde
- “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” – Khalil Gibran
- “A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.” – Max Muller
- “It was the way you laughed, I knew I wanted that in my life.” – R. M. Drake
- “I love you right up to the moon—and back.” – Sam McBratney
- “If I had to dream up the perfect woman, she wouldn’t even come close to you.” – Boy Meets World
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“To love is to burn, to be on fire.” – Jane Austen
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- “True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach
- “Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.” – Moliere
- “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- “Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” – Washington Irving
- “You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” – Barbara De Angelis
- “You call it madness, but I call it love.” – Don Byas
- “Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.” – Augustine of Hippo
- “We love because it’s the only true adventure.” – Nikki Giovanni
- “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “All you need is love.” – Paul McCartney
- “Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” – Pablo Picasso
- “Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones
- “Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person.” – James Thurber
- “You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.” – Elaine Davis.
