Motivational Quotes

Love

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

- Alan Watts

Best Quotes about Love

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

10.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

11.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

13.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

17.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

18.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

19.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

20.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

21.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

22.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

23.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

24.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

25.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

27.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

28.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

29.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

30.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

32.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

34.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

37.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

39.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

40.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

41.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

42.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

43.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

44.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

45.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late