Motivational Quotes

Love

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

- Barrie, Sir James M.

Best Quotes about Love

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

19.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

20.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

25.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

29.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

33.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

34.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

41.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen