
115 Timeless Quotes About Love & Life
Great words create great feelings. Everyday gratitude triggers oxytocin—the “bonding hormone” linked to happier relationships. Keep this list handy for cards, captions or a surprise text—and pair your favorite line with a matching couple hoodie or custom canvas print.
Epic Love Quotes
Soul-stirring lines for shouting your feelings from the rooftops.
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“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”Emily Brontë
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“We loved with a love that was more than love.” — Edgar Allan Poe
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“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” — Aristotle
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“You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.” — E. E. Cummings
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“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.”Robert Browning
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“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”Plato
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“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, and arrives at its destination full of hope.”Maya Angelou
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“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”David Viscott
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“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”Audrey Hepburn
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“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.”Sophocles
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“True love stories never have endings.”Richard Bach
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“Whatever our souls are made of, yours and mine are the same.”Emily Brontë
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“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”Lao Tzu
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“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”Oscar Wilde
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“Love is an endless act of forgiveness; a tender look which becomes a habit.”Peter Ustinov
Life Wisdom Quotes
Philosophical gems that blend life lessons with heartfelt affection.
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“Where there is love there is life.”Mahatma Gandhi
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“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”Kahlil Gibran
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“The purpose of life is to be happy.” — Lao Tzu
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“Love the life you live. Live the life you love.”Bob Marley
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“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” — Abraham Lincoln
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“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”Goethe
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“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”Victor Hugo
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“Love is the only reality.”Rabindranath Tagore
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“Your task is not to seek love, but to find the barriers within yourself.”Rumi
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“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”Victor Hugo
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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”Oscar Wilde
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“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden.”Oscar Wilde
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“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”John Lennon
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“Love is the bridge between you and everything.”Rumi
Romantic Movie & Book Quotes
Lines from stories that still make us swoon.
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“If you're a bird, I'm a bird.” — Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
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“After all this time?” “Always.” — Harry Potter
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“You have bewitched me body and soul.”Pride & Prejudice
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“I wish I knew how to quit you.”Brokeback Mountain
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“Here’s looking at you, kid.”Casablanca
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“I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.”Lord of the Rings
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“To me, you are perfect.”Love Actually
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“You make me want to be a better man.”As Good as It Gets
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“So it’s not gonna be easy, but I’m gonna work at this every day.”The Notebook
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“I will find you. Love you. Marry you. And live without shame.”Outlander
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“You had me at hello.”Jerry Maguire
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“I am catastrophically in love with you.”The Fault in Our Stars
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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.”When Harry Met Sally
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“It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”The Fault in Our Stars
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“I like you very much. Just as you are.”Bridget Jones’s Diary
Humorous & Playful Quotes
Because laughter is the spark that keeps love new.
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“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to persuade my wife to marry me.” — Winston Churchill
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“Love is sharing your popcorn.”Charles M. Schulz
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“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”Charles M. Schulz
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“Before you marry a person, make them use slow Internet.”Will Ferrell
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“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”Albert Einstein
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“Love is blind—marriage is a real eye-opener.”Pauline Thomason
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“If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?”Lily Tomlin
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“You can’t put a price on love, but if you could I'd wait for it to be on sale.”Unknown
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“I love you more than coffee, but please don’t make me prove it.”Unknown
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“Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.”Groucho Marx
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“Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.”Lord Dewar
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“I’m in love with you and all your little things… except leaving dishes in the sink.”Unknown
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“A kiss without a mustache is like an egg without salt.”Spanish Proverb
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“If you can stay in love for more than two years, you’re on something.”Fran Lebowitz
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“Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.”Jules Renard
Self-Love & Growth Quotes
Loving yourself makes space to love others fully.
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“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”Buddha
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“Talk to yourself like someone you love.”Brené Brown
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“Owning our story and loving ourselves through it is the bravest thing we’ll ever do.”Brené Brown
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“To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.”Robert Morley
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“How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.”Rupi Kaur
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“You are enough just as you are.”Meghan Markle
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“Be the love you never received.”Rune Lazuli
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“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.”William Shakespeare
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“The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.”Steve Maraboli
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“Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves.”Brené Brown
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“You owe yourself the love that you so freely give to other people.”Unknown
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“The things that make me different are the things that make me.”Winnie the Pooh
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“Never apologize for being yourself.”Paulo Coelho
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“You are altogether beautiful, my darling; there is no flaw in you.”Song of Solomon 4:7
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“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”Oscar Wilde
Short & Sweet One-Liners
Tiny sentences—huge heart. Copy-paste in five seconds flat.
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“Together is my favorite place.”
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“Forever starts today.”
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“Love lives here.”
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“You. Me. Always.”
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“All of me loves all of you.”
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“Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.”Percy Shelley
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“You are my favorite adventure.”
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“Home is wherever I’m with you.”
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“My heart is and always will be yours.”Jane Austen
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“Love you to the moon & back.”
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“You had me at hello.”
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“Yes, even on bad hair days.”
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“Still crushing on you.”
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“Every day is our day.”
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“Us > Everything.”
Bonus SEO Quotes
Extra sparkle—famous voices with link authority.
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“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” — Lao Tzu
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“Whatever you are, be a good one.” — Abraham Lincoln
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“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” — Harry Potter
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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill
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“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” — E. E. Cummings
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“You miss 100 % of the shots you don’t take.”Wayne Gretzky
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“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”Albert Einstein
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“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”Walt Disney
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“We accept the love we think we deserve.”Stephen Chbosky
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“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”Steve Jobs
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“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul.”Nicholas Sparks
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“Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.”Loretta Young
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“To love another person is to see the face of God.”Victor Hugo
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“Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.”Rumi
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“To love at all is to be vulnerable.”C. S. Lewis
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“True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.”Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”Audrey Hepburn
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“Keep love in your heart—a life without it is a sunless garden.”Oscar Wilde
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“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”Dr. Seuss
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“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”Moulin Rouge!
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“Self-love is not selfish; you cannot truly love another until you know how to love yourself.”Unknown
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“Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favorite.”Unknown
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“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Being deeply loved gives you strength; loving deeply gives you courage.”Lao Tzu
How to Use These Quotes
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