Romantic Inspirational Quotes

Things must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

Long Distance Relationship, Valentine, Heart

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

Love, Deep Romantic, True Love

Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Bell”, p.193, Penguin

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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Fulton J. Sheen

Love, Recovery, Self

Fulton J. Sheen (2003). “Fulton Sheen's Wartime Prayer Book”, p.73, Sophia Institute Press

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If I know what love is, it is because of you.

Hermann Hesse

Love, Life, Anniversary

"Narcissus and Goldmund". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1930.

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You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Henry Drummond

Love, Inspirational, Life

Henry Drummond (2013). “Beautiful Thoughts from Henry Drummond”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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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

Love, Inspirational, Life

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For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Judy Garland

Love, Funny, Romantic

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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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'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.

Judy Garland

I Love You, Valentines Day, I Love Him

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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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Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Love, Valentines Day, Art

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The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return.

Eden Ahbez

Love, Life, Romantic

"Song: 'Nature Boy'". 1948.

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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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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

Love, Inspirational, Funny

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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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Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

Leo Buscaglia

Love, Romantic, Positivity

Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Lord Byron

Love, Heart, Intuition

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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 makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Zora Neale Hurston

Love, Inspirational, Life

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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 is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert A. Heinlein

Love, Life, Positive

Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

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Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration. Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman, what excites her, and what surprises her. Its actions whisper; you are the most special person in my life.

Charles Stanley

Love, Romantic, Romance

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Barbara De Angelis

Love, Inspirational, Romantic

Barbara De Angelis (1997). “Are You the One for Me? ; Real Moments”, Fine Communications

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Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

Elinor Glyn

Love, Romantic, Marriage

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Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

Margaret of Valois

Love, Romantic, Wise

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