What Is True Love Quotes

• True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.

  Ellen G. White

  True Love, Wise, Strong

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• The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.112, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Life, Relationship

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1850). “The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy”, p.9

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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 is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

  Joan Crawford

  Love, Heartbreak, Dream

  Interview in "Hollywood Reporter", 1954.

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• True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you.

  Julia Roberts

  Love, Best Friend, True Love

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Life, Sex

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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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• True love stories never have endings.

  Richard Bach

  Love, Anniversary, Valentines Day

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• 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

  Love, Friendship, Birthday

  "Winnie-the-Pooh: The House at Pooh Corner". Book by A. A. Milne, 1928.

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  There is no remedy for love but to love more.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Life, Break Up

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.12, Yale University Press

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• You are every reason, every hope and every dream I've ever had.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Notebook, Dream

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.106, Hachette UK

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• The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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• A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Love, Valentines Day, Nature

  "An Uncommon Scold". Book by Abby Adams, 1989.

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• There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

  Sarah Dessen

  Love, Romantic, Valentine

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.252, Penguin

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• We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspiring, Marriage

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• I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you

  Roy Croft

  Love, Friendship, Positive

  "Fictional character: Liberace". "Behind the Candelabra", www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

  Emily Bronte

  Love, Romantic, Anniversary

  Wuthering Heights ch. 9 (1847)

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• The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.

  Joan Chen

  Happiness, Sex, Romantic Love

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Positive, Marriage

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