Motivational Quotes

Love

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

- Barry, Lynda

Best Quotes about Love

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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

Reik, Theodor

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

11.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

19.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

20.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

21.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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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

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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

Hertl, Nick

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

39.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

43.

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

Bible

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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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