Inspirational True Love Quotes

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Life, Sex

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The course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

Love, Life, Summer

'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 132

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The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Mother Teresa

Love, Life, Positive

Interview with Edward W. Desmond, Time magazine, December 04, 1989.

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I need you because I love you.

Erich Fromm

Love, Romantic, Disappointment

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.46, Open Road Media

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Marcus Aurelius

Love, Inspirational, Valentines Day

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One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

Paulo Coelho

Love, Life, Relationship

FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Feb 25, 2014

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You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

Julia Roberts

Love, Happiness, Happy

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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, Inspirational, Positive

Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1979.

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Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Vincent Van Gogh

Love, Life, Strength

Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

Erich Fromm

Love, Life, Romantic

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.46, Open Road Media

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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Laozi

Love, Inspirational, Life

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Love, Life, Positive

Attributed to Aristotle in Diogenes Laertius "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers" translated by C. D. Yonge and Henry G. Bohn (p. 188), 1853.

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love, Inspirational, Life

Terre des Hommes ch. 8 (1939)

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True love stories never have endings.

Richard Bach

Love, Anniversary, Valentines Day

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Things must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

Long Distance Relationship, Valentine, Heart

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If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Mother Teresa

Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

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The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Elbert Hubbard

Love, Valentines Day, Kindness

Elbert Hubbard, Felix Shay (1912). “The Fra: A Journal of Affirmation”

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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

Katharine Hepburn

Love, Inspirational, Romantic

Katharine Hepburn (1992). “Me: Stories of My Life”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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The giving of love and understanding is an education in itself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Love, Inspiring, Teacher

"Your Teens and Mine".

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One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.

Sophocles

Love, Life, Wedding

"Oedipus at Colonus". Play by Sophocles, Lines 1616-1618,

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We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

Sam Keen

Love, Friendship, Anniversary

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True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.

Torquato Tasso

Love, Heartbreak, Doe

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Love the people with whom fate brings you together

Marcus Aurelius

Valentines Day, Fate, Destiny

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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Motivational, Friendship

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Where there is love there is life.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Inspirational, Life

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.119, Courier Corporation

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