Romantic Love Quotes

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

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

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• The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.

  Rumi

  Anniversary, Marriage, Valentines Day

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Untitled”

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• If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Food, Unrequited Love

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Nov 27, 2011

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• When I saw you I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew.

  Arrigo Boito

  Love, Smile, Romantic

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• When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

  Nora Ephron

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Nora Ephron (2011). “When Harry Met Sally. . .”, p.97, Knopf

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• Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 17, 2013

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• I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Life, Romantic

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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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• Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.

  Samuel Lover

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

  William Bayle Bernard, Samuel Lover (1874). “The Life of Samuel Lover, R. H. A.: Artistic, Literary, and Musical, with Selections from His Unpublished Papers and Correspondence”, p.113

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• The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Powerful, True Love

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• The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

  Pearl Bailey

  Love, Life, Heartbreak

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• Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

  Bruce Lee

  Love, Life, Friendship

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.96, Tuttle Publishing

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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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  And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Le Petit Prince ch. 21 (1943)

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• I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.

  Liv Tyler

  Love, Romantic, Wedding

  "Fictional character: Arwen". "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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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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• There is no instinct like that of the heart.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Heart, Intuition

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• Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

  Thomas Moore

  Love, Marriage, Heartbreak

  "Did You Know?/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.

  J. G. Holland

  Love, Positive, Heartbreak

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  We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.

  Robert Fulghum

  Love, Funny, Life

  "True Love". Book by Robert Fulghum, 1997.

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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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  All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love, Life, Marriage

  Leo Tolstoy (2014). “War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman”, p.1512, Simon and Schuster

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  Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.

  William Goldman

  Love, Beach, Soulmate

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.47, A&C Black

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• Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

  Voltaire

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

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

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