Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Connolly, Cyril

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Brown, Les

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Peter Ustinov

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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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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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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

Ferry, Brian

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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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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, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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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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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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

Hay, Louise L.

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