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140 Soulmate Quotes Capturing The Essence Of True Love

140 Soulmate Quotes Capturing The Essence Of True Love

Whether you’re a firm believer in soulmates or simply curious about the idea, get ready to explore a collection of soulmate quotes that will broaden your horizons!

My 10 Favorite Soulmate Quotes

1. “A soul mate is the one person whose love is powerful enough to motivate you to meet your soul, to do the emotional work of self-discovery, of awakening.” — Kenny Loggins

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2. “Important encounters are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.” — Paulo Coelho

3. “Soulmate relationships are never complicated, difficult, or dramatic. True soulmates are like long-lost puzzle pieces that easily fall into place the moment they are found. And it’s always a perfect fit.” ― Anthon St. Maarten

4. “What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life… to strengthen each other… to be at one with each other in silent, unspeakable memories.” — George Eliot

5. “A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks.” — Richard Bach

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6. “A bond between souls is ancient — older than the planet.” ― Dianna Hardy

7. “A soulmate will never leave you. They will always be a part of your life until one day the chance is given for them to become your life. It is then you will become one.” ― Faye Hall

8. “Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.” — Richard Bach

9. “A soul mate is someone who you carry with you forever. It’s the one person who knew you and accepted you and believed in you before anyone else did or when no one else would.” — Dawson Leery, Dawson’s Creek

10. “Some souls are just meant to be for each other forever, and ever, and ever!” — Avijeet Das

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Quotes About Finding Your Soulmate 

1. “A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.” — Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset

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2. “You can meet thousands of people and none of them will touch you. And then one day, someone can come in and touch your soul and before you know it, your life has been changed forever.” — Jamie Randall, Love & Other Drugs

3. “Though soulmates aren’t looking for you, they will find you.” — Kevin Ansbro

4. “Souls tend to go back to who feels like home.” — N.R. Hart

5. “We click. There aren’t that many people that you just ‘click’ with; and when you find those people, you don’t just let them go.” — Unknown

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6. “Connecting with someone is not necessarily a bond with a significant other, or even a friend, but can be the indefinable — perhaps the rarest and most precious thing in life to find at all.” ― Donna Lynn Hope

7. “A true soulmate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.” — Elizabeth Gilbert

8. “Your soulmate will be the stranger you recognize.” — r.h. Sin

9. “A soulmate is an ongoing connection with another individual that the soul picks up again in various times and places over lifetimes.” — Edgar Cayce

10. “When deep down in the core of your being you believe that your soulmate exists, there is no limit to the ways he or she can enter your life.”  — Arielle Ford

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11. “I think we’re given multiple chances to meet multiple soulmates. Sure, you could meet a soulmate in high school. But that doesn’t mean if you don’t act on it, you’ll never meet anyone else. You will, just at a time that’s more convenient for you.” ― Meg Cabot, How to Be Popular

12. “Sometimes you get lucky and find a soul that grooves with yours.” — Unknown

13. “To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.” ― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

14. “There are no accidental meetings between souls.” — Sheila Burke

15. “When you meet that special someone, you’ll understand why it didn’t work out with anyone else.” — Unknown

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16. “Before you find your soul mate, you must first discover your soul.” ― Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain – The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

17. “It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.” ― John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love

18. “Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soul mate and that takes a lot of looking.” — Marvin Gaye

19. “A soul mate’s purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master.” — Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

20. “Don’t rush into love. You’ll find the person meant for you when you least expect it.” — Franzie Gubatina

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21. “When the soul is ready, its mate will appear.” — Unknown

22. “We meet our soulmates when we are on our soul path.” — Karen M. Black

23. “If you can’t ignore imperfections, then your imaginary ideal soulmate will always remain pending till you grow old and die.” — Michael Bassey Johnson

24. “It’s easy to recognize our soulmate. When we meet them and find true love, after a time you can’t exist without that person; you would rather die than lose them.” — Glen Rambharack

25. “Eventually soulmates meet, for they have the same hiding place.” ― Robert Brault

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26. “I’ve learned that there’s a soulmate somewhere in this world. Till you don’t find that person, the search goes on.” — Preity Zinta

27. “A soulmate is someone who you could spend a great deal of time with just sitting on a sofa and feel happy. You don’t need fanfare. You don’t need to go out to expensive restaurants.” — Karen Salmansohn

28. “Soulmates tend to find each other during their respective pursuits of their soul missions. Creating a soulmate could be seen as a spiritual reward that we give ourselves, after pursuing many soul contracts rife with discord.” — Linda Brady

29. “The soul mate doesn’t have to be a romantic relationship. Sometimes in life, you meet people when you need them, and there is an immediate connection.” ― Alison G. Bailey, Present Perfect

30.  “Sometimes, soulmates may meet, stay together until a task or life lesson is completed, and then move on. This is not a tragedy, only a matter of learning.” ― Brian Weiss

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Deep True Love Soulmate Quotes

1. “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” — Maya Angelou

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2. “There are two kinds of feeling — one from our body, another from our soul. Love, it is the affection of soul, to soul.” ― Silenus Poetry, Finding Identity

3. “A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence.” ― Shannon L. Alder

4. “When you’re in love, you’re capable of learning everything and knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love is the key to understanding of all the mysteries.” ― Paulo Coelho, Brida

5. “I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…In life after life, in age after age, forever.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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6. “Time is too swift for those who fear, too long for those who wait, too short for those who finally find peace, but for those who love, time is eternal. For nothing is ever lost that God wants you to find.” ― Shannon Alder

7. “I recognized you instantly. All of our lives flashed through my mind in a split second. I felt a pull so strongly towards you that I almost couldn’t stop it.” ― J. Sterling, In Dreams

8. “A person whose words once entered your heart, whose philosophy of life coincided with your philosophy of life and whose soul became friends with your soul, will never be forgotten!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan

9. “Soulmates aren’t the ones who make you happiest, no. They’re instead the ones who make you feel the most. Burning edges and scars and stars. Old pangs, captivation, and beauty. Strain and shadows and worry and yearning. Sweetness and madness and dreamlike surrender. They hurl you into the abyss. They taste like hope.” ― Victoria Erickson

10. “Giving someone a piece of your soul is better than giving a piece of your heart. Because souls are eternal.” — Helen Boswell, Mythology: The Wicked

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11. “Inhale when I inhale. Exhale when I exhale. Breathe with me, for two beating hearts breathing one breath together become one.” ― Christina Westover, Poisoning Sylvie

12. “A soulmate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communicating and communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace.” — Thomas Moore

13. “It suddenly made sense. Only twice in his life had he felt this inexplicable, almost mystical attraction to a woman. He’d thought it remarkable, to have found two, when in his heart he’d always believed there was only one perfect woman out there for him. His heart had been right. There was only one.” ― Julia Quinn, An Offer From a Gentleman

14. “People think a soulmate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soulmate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.” — Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

15. “Sometimes, I think a soulmate is someone who will make you be the most possibly ‘you’ than you can possibly be.” — Unknown

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16. “I tried to hate you, to forgive you, all just to forget you, but I’m only capable of loving you. You’re tattooed onto my skin, and the more I try to erase you, the deeper you sink in.” ― Mirella Muffarotto, Soccer Sweetheart

17. “It’s a profoundly strange feeling, to stumble across someone whose desires are shaped so closely to your own, like reaching toward your reflection in a mirror and finding warm flesh under your fingertips. If you should ever be lucky enough to find that magical, fearful symmetry, I hope you’re brave enough to grab it with both hands and not let go.” ― Alix E. Harrow

18. “There is a special bond between twin soulmates — unconditional love, respect for each other, bringing out the best in each other, and highly compatible.” — Mettrie L.

19. “The way our fingers intertwine feels so natural and right; as if our hands hold memories of meeting in a thousand other lifetimes.” ― John Mark Green

20. “Our lives may not have fit together, but oh, did our souls know how to dance.” — K. Towne Jr.

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21. “They stood there pretending to be just friends when all the while everyone in the room could plainly see that they were only existing for each other.” — Emma Blake

22. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” — Aristotle

23. “Our universe grants every soul a twin, a reflection of themselves — the kindred spirit. And no matter where they are or how far away they are from each other — even if they are in different dimensions, they will always find one another. This is destiny; this is love.” — Julie Dillon

24. “Maybe love at first sight isn’t what we think it is. Maybe it’s recognizing a soul we loved in a past life and falling in love with them again.” — Kamand Kojouri

25. “You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.” — J. Smith

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26. “Soulmates are those that we’ve known many lifetimes, have had many karmic contracts with, and with whom we have resolved conflicts. Marriage partners may or may not be soul mates, though they will be a soul contract. With true soul mates, there is no struggle. What’s left over is love.” — Karen M. Black

27. “Love is but the discovery of ourselves in another, and the delight in the recognition.” — Alexander Smith

28. “When love runs soul-deep, a kiss is no longer just a kiss. It is the place where heaven and earth meet.” — Daniel Nielsen

29. “We do not choose who we love but rather our souls choose for us.” — N.R. Hart

30. “The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind I was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” — Rumi

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Captivating Soulmate Quotes For Her

1. “Do you believe, as I do, that our souls spoke, long before our lips ever got a chance to?” — Sayed H. Fatimi

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2. “You feel more like home to me than any place I’ve ever been.” ― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon an Ever After

3. “It’s always been yours, I cannot find another this heart will beat for.” — S.L. Gray

4. “You two are bound to one another. You always have been … and you can’t run away from what you are. No matter where you go, your feelings for her are going to follow you.” ― Mirella Muffarotto, Soccer Sweetheart

5. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” — Emily Brontë

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6. “I recognized you instantly. All of our lives flashed through my mind in a split second. I felt a pull so strongly towards you that I almost couldn’t stop it.” ― J. Sterling, In Dreams

7. “You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I’ve ever had.” — Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

8. “In a church of my own we’re perfect together I recognize you in the stained glass.” — Heather Nova, “The Sorrowjoy”

9. “They knew nothing about one another, yet he would recognize her even if deaf or blind. She was that much a part of him.” ― Kelly Moran, Bewitched

10. “If I had to dream up the perfect woman, she wouldn’t even come close to you.” ­— Cory Matthews, Boy Meets World

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11. “It’s like in that moment, the whole universe existed just to bring us together.” — Sara Thomas, Serendipity

12. “I want you any way I can get you. Not because you’re beautiful or clever or kind or adorable, although devil knows you’re all those things. I want you because there’s no one else like you, and I don’t ever want to start a day without seeing you.” — Lisa Kleypas, Tempt Me at Twilight

13. “‘Our souls already know each other, don’t they?’ he whispered. ‘It’s our bodies that are new.’” — Karen Ross

14. “Even before we met and long after we’re both gone, my heart lives inside of yours. I am forever and ever in love with you.” — Crystal Woods

15. “I’m convinced my heart knew who it belonged to, long before I met her.” — Karla Campos

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16. “You are everything everywhere… my spirit rises up in your light, my heart blossoms in your colors, and my soul is born into your shade.” ― Bodhi Smith

17. “You and I may be near or far away from each other. But darling, you and I are soulmates! And soulmates are always together in body, mind, heart, and soul!” — Avijeet Das

18. “If we’d never met, I think I would have known my life wasn’t complete. And I would have wandered the world in search of you, even if I didn’t know who I was looking for.” — Nicholas Sparks

19. “She’s it. She’s my everything. She’s the standard by which I’ll judge beauty for the rest of my life. I’ll measure every touch to her breath on my skin. Every voice to her voice. Every mind to her mind. My measure of perfection. The name carved into me. If I could, I would lie with her under these stars until my heart burst.” — Jeff Zentner, The Serpent King

20. “I feel like a part of my soul has loved you since the beginning of everything. Maybe we’re from the same star.” ― Emery Allen

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Beautiful Soulmate Quotes For Him

1. “You’re my soulmate. You feel familiar, like someone I have known since before. You are at the back of my mind always.” — Namrata Gupta, Lost Love Late Love

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2. “Soulmates resonate on many levels. Something deep in me recognizes something deep in you that is sacred.” — Annette Vaillancourt

3. “He made me feel unhinged… like he could take me apart and put me back together again and again.” ― Chelsie Shakespeare

4. “My soul is in love with your soul.” — R.Hart

5. “He stirred my soul in the most subtle way and the story between us wrote itself.” — Nikki Rowe

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6. “For you I have saved poems under my skin.” ― Sanober Khan

7. “I say this to you now: I love you, with no beginning, no end. I love you as you have become an extra necessary organ in my body. I love you as only a girl could love a boy. Without fear. Without expectations. Wanting nothing in return, except that you allow me to keep you here in my heart, that I may always know your strength, your eyes, and your spirit that gave me freedom and let me fly.” ― Jamie Weise

8. “We were just two broken souls trying to fix one another… Somehow I ended up with a piece of you and you, me.” — Evy Michaels

9. “I want to be your soulmate, even if I don’t believe in them.” — Colleen Hoover, This Girl

10. “I believe I’ve already met my soulmate and even if I’m not his, the memory makes me smile because it was truly beautiful.” ― Dominic Riccitello

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11. “I could recognize his soul in mine as much as he could find me in his. Our sole existences seemed to have been for this very moment when nothing else mattered.” — X. Williamson

12. “For better or worse, he was my soulmate. The other half of me. In many ways, he was my reflection.” — Sylvia Day

13. “It seems impossible I could meet someone so much like me, then I realized you’re my soulmate.” — Unknown

14. “Our souls have conversations words could never describe.” — Bridgett Devoue

15. “We are what ballads are written of, what bards sing of. We are epic, you and I.” ― Samantha Garman, Dandelion Dreams

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16. “Your laughter is my laughter, your thoughts are my thoughts, and your soul is my soul.” — Unknown

17. “He was my secret conduit to myself — like a catalyst that allows us to become who we are, the foreign body, the pacer, the graft, the patch that sends all the right impulses, the steel pin that keeps a soldier’s bone together, the other man’s heart that makes us more us than we were before the transplant.” — André Aciman

18. “For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” — Judy Garland

19. “I could never give my heart to anyone else because it already belonged to you. You are my soulmate. And even after all the pain and heartbreak, there hasn’t been a day that I didn’t believe that.” ― Dolores Lane, Writing with Blood

20. “Stronger than mountains. A place where my heart feels the safest — underneath his shirt.” ― Sanober Khan

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Thought-Provoking Quotes On Soulmates

1. “Soul mates are muses. The people in your life you despise, disrespect, and desire the most.” — Coco J. Ginger

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2. “What’s the difference?” I asked him. “Between the love of your life and your soulmate?” “One is a choice, and one is not.” ― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

3. “I used to believe in one true soulmate, but not anymore. I believe you can have a few.” — Paul Walker

4. “What if you find your soul mate… at the wrong time?” ― Lauren Kate, Passion

5. “A soulmate is a romantic partner who really understands the needs of your soul, mind, and body with little or no explanation needed.” — Lebo Grand

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6. “When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, “What was it that you wanted and why didn’t you fight for it?” ― Shannon L. Alder

7. “Soul mates may be linked, but fight to separate, causing wounds and confusion. They teach what no one else can.” ― Donna Lynn Hope

8. “We don’t know how it works. But some people are able to read us telepathically. You know, our bare souls. Our sum of intentions. Our feelings. Our thought processes.” ― Abhaidev, The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit

9. “Imagine meeting someone who even understood the dustiest corners of your mixed-up soul.” — Unknown

10. “A strong soul reaches anyplace, anytime; body fails to restrain it. And thus, perhaps soul mates are formed.” — Munia Khan

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11. “There is no such thing as a soulmate…and who would want there to be? I don’t want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul.” ― Rachel Cohn, Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List

12. “Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can’t understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?” — Nancy Garden, Annie On My Mind

13. “A soulmate is someone whose way of viewing life is not necessarily the same as yours but complements yours. There is not a compromise, there is a complement.” — Paul Robear

14. “I believe everyone has a soulmate that they can spend the rest of their life together.” — Ryan Lochte

15. “A life-mate is supposed to fulfill the basic standards of a life cycle, and a soul-mate is the one purely connected to your heart.” — Shikha Kaul

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16. “Most people have more than one soulmate. A soulmate can come in the form of a life partner, friend, child, or lover. A soul mate can be someone with whom you share a spiritual path, a joint work in the world, or a commitment to be parents to certain souls. It can be one whose growth you are sponsoring, such as a child.” — Sanaya Roman

17. “Close your eyes for a while. The image that conjures is your soulmate. Don’t pause, rush, and say what you feel. After all time and tide for none wait.” — Neelam Saxena Chandra

18. “I describe a soulmate as a ‘soul-nurturing mate’ — someone who nurtures your soul — thereby promoting insight and growth.” — Karen Salmansohn

19. “If two people can be in silence without any thoughts, it is the highest form of union. It makes you experience the divine oneness. You realize that the same power is looking through your eyes and your lover’s eyes at the same time.” ― Shunya

20. “A true soulmate is a combination of lover and best friend, someone who understands you on a deep level and shares your hopes and dreams.” — Unknown

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Soulmate Quotes About Best Friends

1. “Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.” ― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City

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2. “True love is finding your soulmate in your best friend.” ― Faye Hall, My Gift to You

3. “In your lifetime, you will meet one person who is unlike any other, you can tell them any and everything and they won’t judge you…this person is your soulmate, your best friend… don’t ever let them go…” — Rashida Rowe

4. “Soulmates are friends whose spirits travel together, hearts break and mend together, and souls rise together in love acceptance and harmony.” ― Janet Autherine, The Heart and Soul of Black Women: Poems of Love, Struggle and Resilience

5. “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one!’” — C.S. Lewis

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6. “A friend is a second self.” — Aristotle

7. “Your soulmate doesn’t just mean your husband or your boyfriend. I have friends in my life who I believe I was meant to meet and be a part of.” — Louise Nurding

8. “And sometimes if you’re really lucky, you’ll find out that your soulmate was disguised as your best friend the whole time.” — Unknown

9. “Soulmate is an overused term, but a true soul connection is very rare and very real.” — Hilary Duff

10. “A soulmate is a best friend who will love you unconditionally, who will stand by you no matter what, and who will always bring out the best in you.” — Unknown

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Final Thoughts

These soulmate quotes are all about that special bond we share with those who feel like they were destined to be in our lives. 

They are the ones who understand us in ways no one else can, making life’s joys sweeter and its challenges more bearable. 

So, have you found your soulmate?

140 Soulmate Quotes Capturing The Essence Of True Love