70 best emotional quotes and sayings

70 best emotional quotes and sayings

Reading right emotional quotes can change your life. We all need a piece of advice or inspiration at different stages of our lives. Emotional quotes can provide you with the wisdom of generations of prominent people. Implementing this wisdom in your life may save you from making many painful mistakes. Read the quotes and sayings we have gathered for you and make your life better today!

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Sometimes, people that surround us are unable to give us a proper advice or words of guidance. Luckily, there are quotes of prominent people that share their life experience. We have picked the most emotional quotes on love and life that will certainly influence the way you think.

Emotional quotes about love

Love is a complex feeling. Sometimes, we need some kind of reassurance or guidance to make sure that we chose the right way. Emotional quotes on love are a good way to find advice from people of various backgrounds, ages, and social statuses. You can find really useful tips in quotes of famous writers, actors, scientists, philosophers, and poets. You can also send these emotional quotes for love to the person or people you care about.

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Here are strong emotional quotes and sayings you can use either for you own inspiration or as text messages to your lover:

  • “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
  • “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” – Victor Hugo
  • “The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It is focused attention.” – Richard Warren
  • “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
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  • “Love’s greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.” – Barbara De Angelis
  • “Love is, in fact, an intensification of life, a completeness, a fullness, a wholeness of life.” – Thomas Merton
  • “Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.” – James Baldwin
  • “Everything that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.” Franz Kafka
  • “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
  • “Loving someone feels like being attached to that person, no matter how far you are from each other.”

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  • “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.” – Oscar Wilde
  • “The minute I heard my first love story – I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere – they’re in each other all along.” – Rumi
  • “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
  • “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
  • “You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.” – Hermann Hesse
  • “You have to show someone that you love them instead of telling them. But if you stop loving someone you have to tell them, not show them.”

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  • "Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused." – Paulo Coelho
  • “Being in love is like stretching a rubber band. If one lets go, the rubber band would hurt the other."
  • “Sometimes you have to set the one you love free. It would come back if it is yours, but if it is not, you are never meant to be.”
  • "So many people could catch your eyes, but there is a certain person that could only catch your heart.”
  • “But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.” – Molly Haskell
  • "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

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  • "Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused." – Paulo Coelho
  • “Being in love is like stretching a rubber band. If one lets go, the rubber band would hurt the other."
  • "So many people could catch your eyes, but there is a certain person that could only catch your heart.”
  • “A person who is in love with you would do anything for you without asking for anything in return.”
  • “Loving someone truly does not have an end. When you stop loving someone, then it is not real love.”

Emotional quotes about life

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Emotional quotes of life speak about various situations in life. Some focus on success, others – on forgiveness. The themes are numerous and every person will find something that relates to them in these quotes. Even sad emotional quotes may be inspirational to someone.

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Here are some of the best emotional quotes about life. Use them as sources of guidance or inspiration in your daily life:

  • “Time means a lot to me because, you see, I, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” – Bruce Lee
  • “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” – Steve Jobs
  • “Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.” Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has been before.” – Albert Einstein
  • “The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.” – Neil Gaiman

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  • “Before you act, listen. Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try.” – Ernest Hemingway
  • “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller
  • “When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” – Audre Lorde
  • “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn, or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” – Denis Waitley
  • “If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present. Gratefully.” Maya Angelou

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  • “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” – Harriet Tubman
  • "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” – Bil Keane
  • "Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment." – Oprah Winfrey
  • “Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.” – Mother Theresa
  • “It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.” – Sigmund Freud

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  • “Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going.” – Tennessee Williams
  • “In this life, when you deny someone an apology, you will remember it at time you beg forgiveness.” – Toba Beta
  • “Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James
  • “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
  • “Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.” – Jack London
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  • Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.” – Al Franken
  • “Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.” – Denis Waitley
  • “The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which bridge to burn.” – David Russell
  • “Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.” – Earl Nightingale
  • “Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.” – Yoko Ono

There are numerous emotional quotes about life and love. There is certainly a quote for every mood and life situation. You can send these quotes to your loved ones too. One thing is certain, reading these quotes will definitely make you feel better.

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Adrianna Simwa (Lifestyle writer) Adrianna Simwa is a content writer at Legit.ng where she has worked since mid-2022. She has written for many periodicals on a variety of subjects, including news, celebrities, and lifestyle, for more than three years. She has worked for The Hoth, The Standard Group and Triple P Media. Adrianna graduated from Nairobi University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in 2020. In 2023, Simwa finished the AFP course on Digital Investigation Techniques. You can reach her through her email: adriannasimwa@gmail.com