Motivational Quotes

Love

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Love

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Alan Watts

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

42.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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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