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Love Quotes


I have never understood love…


The Greeks defined love in 9 ways: 

Philia (affectionate love between friends), Pragma (practical love), Eros (romantic, passionate love), Agape (selfless or universal love), Storge (familiar love between family members), Mania (obsessive love), Ludus (playful love), Pragma (enduring or mature love), Philautia (self love)


“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-Exupéry, The Little Prince


“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.” 

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince


“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,

Love like you'll never be hurt,

Sing like there's nobody listening,

And live like it's heaven on earth.” 

William W. Purkey


“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” 

Elbert Hubbard


“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” 

Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves


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

Lao Tzu


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

Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land


“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.” 

Marilyn Monroe


“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.” 

Marilyn Monroe


“Tis better to have loved and lost

Than never to have loved at all.” 

Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam


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

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist


“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.” 

Oscar Wilde


“Where there is love there is life.” 

Mahatma Gandhi