The idea of love has been expressed and expanded through paintings, poetries, songs, novels and movies and what not! But we at myhoogah believe that nothing says it better than love quotes.
Here is a bunch of quotes to make you feel all happy, loved and mushy! Cheers to the endless journey and unfolding of this feeling as you move from one quote to another.
Let all you do, be done in love (including reading)!
ULTIMATE LOVE QUOTES COLLECTION
Give love
Reese Witherspoon
“You always gain by giving love.”
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One sided love? Think of loving without expecting exact reciprocation from them. It’s very warming too!
DID YOU KNOW?
Reese has had 3 dogs named after celebrities – Bulldog Coco Chanel, Bulldog Frank Sinatra and Chihuahua Chi Chi Rodriguez!
Beginning & End
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.”
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Find a person with whom you can have pizza at midnight and talk till dawn! Here, you found ‘love’!
DID YOU KNOW?
Though he is a genius to us, Fitzgerald was a lousy student who struggled to pass school and college exams!
No barriers
Maya Angelou
“Love recognizes no barriers.”
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Always waiting for a friend to proofread your texts from your love? Try putting yourself in the receiver’s shoes and you’ll never need another proofreader.
DID YOU KNOW?
Maya Angelou spoke six languages as fluently as her mother tongue!
Love connects souls
Aristotle
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
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All those love letters in your shelves that you wrote but never sent out, now is the time to send those! 😉
DID YOU KNOW?
Aristotle and Plato, yes these two geniuses were best of allies to each other!
Loving is living
John Updike
“We are most alive when we are in love.”
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As soon as you wake up, think of a thing, your dog or the person you’re in love with. You’ll be smiling all day long!
DID YOU KNOW?
This novelist is one of the only three to have won 3 Pulitzers!
Love is friendship
Ann Landers
“Love is friendship that has caught fire.”
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Maybe the right person is one of your closest friends? Give it a thought. 😉
DID YOU KNOW?
Ann loves promoting bizarre legends for fun like – Halloween candies can kill you or birds shouldn’t eat rice thrown at weddings!
First, self-love
Lucille Ball
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.”
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Get up, wear a dress and your favourite shoes & admire yourself in the mirror. Start a journey of loving yourself!
DID YOU KNOW?
Lucille Ball was the first female to run a major Hollywood studio!
Science of love
Albert Einstein
“You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.”
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Whenever in doubt, believe in your instincts. Listen to your inner call!
DID YOU KNOW?
Einstein fell in love and later married the only female student in his physics class!
The sudden rush
John Green
“I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
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The best way to feel better instantly is to watch your favourite romantic movies!
DID YOU KNOW?
Green is also a very renowned Youtuber. Go check out his ventures!
Love matters more
Frank Sinatra
“A simple ‘I love you’ means more than money.”
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Make a list of all the non-materialistic things that make you happy!
DID YOU KNOW?
Sinatra, like most of us was fond of elevator shoes to look a few inches taller!
Love stories
Richard Bach
“True love stories never have endings.”
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Write an alternate ending to all those things that made you sob. Change the endings of all those sad movies/books and turn them into happy endings!
DID YOU KNOW?
Bach’s short novel, Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, sold one million copies within a year!
Loving is an art
Bob Dylan
“There’s nothing that I wouldn’t do to make you feel my love.”
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Try to combine two things that you love. For example: if you love cooking and you love your sister, try to cook something for her. Double the joy!
DID YOU KNOW?
Dylan was also an actor. He starred in movies like Renaldo and Clara, Hearts of fir and Masked and Anonymous! Surprised? Us too!
Loss in love
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.”
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Make a journal of what made you happy or what made you feel loved. It will make for a good read when in need! 😉
DID YOU KNOW?
Tennyson had some of the most famous fans including Virginia Woolf, Thomas Edison and Queen Victoria!
Brave love
Madonna
“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.”
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Go and hug your cute ball of fur for a better sleep and innocent love dose! <3
DID YOU KNOW?
Before gaining fame, Madonna used to sell Dunkin Donuts at the Times Square!
Holding each other
Audrey Hepburn
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
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Call up a loved one and talk your heart out. It will make you both feel lighter and tighten the bond of love!
DID YOU KNOW?
Hepburn aimed to become a ballerina but couldn’t due to long lasting effects of malnutrition after World War II!
Great love stories
Meghan Markle
“Personally, I love a great love story.”
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Revisit the cosy, mushy teenage romance books that kept you awake earlier. 😉
DID YOU KNOW?
Markle has a double major. She is a major in theatre as well as international relations!
Let love grow
John Lennon
“Love is a flower. You have to let it grow.”
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Sometimes do things like cleaning, cooking or do the dishes together! You will find a new spark with your partner!
DID YOU KNOW?
Lennon has an equal obsession with monopoly as he has with music!
Oh love!
James Joyce
“Love loves to love love.”
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You used to write poems and letters and little things in the last page of your notebook, right? Do that again!
DID YOU KNOW?
Joyce published his first piece of writing only at 9!
Loving is forgiving
Beyonce
“Love is an endless act of forgiveness.”
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Try to reconcile with a long lost friend or loved one. It brings mental peace and happiness like never before!
DID YOU KNOW?
Beyonce is allergic to perfumes!
Prioritising Self
Katy Perry
“First and foremost, self-love, and then give love away.”
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Do some kind of self-pampering everyday. It might be make-up, watching movies with a face mask on, walking or even taking care of your greens at home!
DID YOU KNOW?
Perry helped her older sister deliver a baby in a water tub in her living room!
Smile
Mother Teresa
“The smile is the beginning of love.”
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Register for some volunteer work in a shelter home or an orphanage. You’ll be amazed to see how much love goes around there!
DID YOU KNOW?
After Mother Teresa left home to join Sisters of Loreto in Ireland, she never saw her mother and sisters ever again in her life!
Love and poets
Plato
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”
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Everyday note one thing you love about yourself and your most cherished person. You’ll soon have hundreds of reasons to continue loving both of you! <3
DID YOU KNOW?
Plato was taught by Socrates and he also penned down many of Socrates’ works!
Betterment is love
Paulo Coelho
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are.”
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Struggling to express verbally? Write it down!
DID YOU KNOW?
Paulo was admitted in a mental asylum when he told his mother he wanted to become a writer full time!
Fire of love
Pablo Neruda
“To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.”
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If you’re in a doubt about your relationship or if you don’t feel compatible enough, have an open discussion with your partner!
DID YOU KNOW?
All the three houses that Neruda owned in his lifetime, are now converted to public museums!
Not ordinary
Oscar Wilde
“Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.”
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Talk and act and at the slightest hint of a red flag in any kind of relationship.
DID YOU KNOW?
Despite being one one most celebrated writers, Wilde has written only one novel- The Picture of Dorian Grey!
You're the universe
E. E. Cummings
“You’re my sun, my moon and all my stars.”
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Try to maintain a birthday fund for yourself! Save a little every month to buy or pamper yourself with a special gift from you to you on your birthday!
DID YOU KNOW?
Cummings was arrested on the suspicion of espionage during the first world war!
Soulmates
Emily Bronte
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
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Once every two months or so try to do a confessions thing with your family, lover and friends. Try to work on the shortcomings they point out.
DID YOU KNOW?
Emily wasn’t just an author. She excelled at music, cooking, painting and even shooting!
Love erases fears
Jessica Katoff
“Oh, how a quiet love can drown out every fear.”
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Whenever possible, try to send out hand written letters to people you love!
DID YOU KNOW?
Jessica still prefers writing letters over texting or social media for interaction with fans! How cool is she?
Love never fails
George Burns
“It is better to fail at something you love than to succeed at something you hate.”
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Take out time to dig into your childhood passions like drawing, clay painting or doodling.
DID YOU KNOW?
Burns, in one of his interviews, expressed the desire to live for 100 years and guess what? He did!
Fairness in love
Francis Edwards
“All is fair in love and war.”
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Have a movie night with your loved ones! <3
DID YOU KNOW?
Francis was the architect for the most famous Victorian designed palaces and museums right now!
Loving is believing
Elizabeth B. Browning
“Who so loves believes the impossible.”
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Be a sensitive person when listening to a broken heart. Empathise. Don’t try to sympathise.
DID YOU KNOW?
Browning and her husband called themselves unapologetic feminists in the romantic age!
Love crosses all
George Clooney
“Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle.”
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Admit your mistakes and say sorry as soon as you realise it.
DID YOU KNOW?
George Clooney went to college but never finished his schooling!
Love grows
Oprah Winfrey
“Love is like a mustard seed, planted by God and watered by men.”
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Sometimes, just let things be and have faith.
DID YOU KNOW?
At 17, Winfrey won the Miss Black Tennessee beauty pageant.
Love is happiness
George Sand
“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
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Take a solo trip to a place you’ve visited before with some friend or family. Notice the differences in experiences!
DID YOU KNOW?
George Sand’s net worth was estimated to be as large as Victor Hugo and Dostoevsky was her fan!
Loneliness is a part
Sir Douglas
“Love is always a little lonely in the beginning.”
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Plan a date night with your girls! Why should boys have all the fun? 😀
DID YOU KNOW?
Douglas served in the British Home Forces as a commander in chief till 1921!
Wishes come true
Elizabeth Bowen
“When you love someone, all your saved up wishes start coming true.”
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Share your dreams and long term life goals with your better half. Keep a track of how much more needs to be done in order to achieve that together.
DID YOU KNOW?
Bowen served as a nurse in a local hospital in Dublin after the first world war!
Love energizes
Robert Browning
“Love is the energy in life.”
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Listen to your favourite song with your loved one on a rainy day!
DID YOU KNOW?
Browning, for most of his life, despised spiritualism!
Love is to create
Voltaire
“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.”
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Bake cookies for yourself. Nothing like self-love!
DID YOU KNOW?
Voltaire’s actual name is Francis M. Arouet!
Love sees and stays
Sushmita Sen
“Love is not blind. It sees more and not less.”
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Who is your idol couple? Write what you love about them and try to implement it in your life!
DID YOU KNOW?
Sushmita followed nobody on Instagram till he she met her partner. Now she follows one person, her partner!
Love is humble
Mahatma Gandhi
“Love is the strongest force this world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable.”
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Cut away from people who make you feel less. You’ll be able to appreciate a lot more things in life when you’re surrounded by people who value you.
DID YOU KNOW?
Mahatma Gandhi was nominated for the Nobel Peace prize 5 times but never won!
Love is strong
Amy Poehler
“Vulnerable people in love are the strongest people.”
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Cheer each other on small things like cooking a meal and big things like getting a promotion, equally!
DID YOU KNOW?
As a teenager, Amy worked at an ice cream parlour!
Love keeps us safe
Ice-T
“Passion makes the world go round. Love makes it a safer place.”
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Be each other’s reality checks. Point out each other’s flaws. Admit your own flaws and start working on them one by one.
DID YOU KNOW?
Ice-T left a life of criminality to make a career as a rapper and also replaced his original name with Ice-T!
Love is commitment
Will Smith
“The central idea of love is not even a relationship commitment; the first is a personal commitment to be the best version of yourself.”
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Try to take a day off from each other. Give space!
DID YOU KNOW?
Smith’s own TV show “Jazz” attracted more than 10 million viewers per episode!
Immeasurable Love
Zelda Fitzgerald
“Nobody has ever measured, not even the poets, how much love a heart can hold.”
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Recreate certain important moments like the first meeting, first conversation, first date etc. It has the capability to instantly rejuvenate relationships!
DID YOU KNOW?
Zelda often claimed her husband Fitzgerald plagiarised her works!
Let love come in
Rumi
“Your task is not to seek love, but only to remove the barriers you’ve built against it.”
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Enjoy the silence with the people you love. Get comfortable with just being silent with each other and that is the definition of true love and comfort!
DID YOU KNOW?
As a child, Rumi often reported seeing angels!
Love is easier
Martin Luther King Jr.
“I have decided to stick to love; hate is too great a burden to bear.”
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Discuss love with your siblings. It’s an interesting topic and you’ll learn how different this emotion feels to everyone!
DID YOU KNOW?
He was the youngest person at the time to receive a Nobel Peace Prize!
Love and pain
Jennifer Aniston
“The greater is your capacity to love, the greater is your capacity to bear pain.”
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Listen to their love stories when the older generations speak about it. Learn from their experiences!
DID YOU KNOW?
Jennifer Aniston actually wanted to play the role of “Monica” in F.R.I.E.N.D.S and not Rachel!
Welcoming love
Tom Hanks
“No matter what’s wrong with you, you, my love, are welcome at this table.”
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Show some love to someone you have been cold towards (don’t deny it, we all have done this).
DID YOU KNOW?
At the age of 45, Hanks was the youngest ever to receive the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement award!
Letting go
Julia Roberts
“You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not a part of it.”
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Try to forget and forgive old fights and quarrels with your classmates and roomies. Talk to them, hug them and go on a ride of nostalgia together!
DID YOU KNOW?
Julia practices Hinduism and is a devotee of Guru Neem Karoli Baba!
Reality Vs. Dreams
Dr. Seuss
“When you’re in love, you can’t sleep because reality is better than dreams.”
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List out the changes you want to make in yourself in order to love yourself more.
DID YOU KNOW?
Dr. Seuss was the first person to use the word “nerd”!
Success and Love
Woody Allen
“The measure of success is how many people love you.”
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Try to be grateful for all you have and own. Create and maintain a gratitude journal!
DID YOU KNOW?
We may know him as one of the greatest entrepreneurs alive but he was rejected by the Harvard Business School!
