Motivational Quotes

Love

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Love

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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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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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Scherer, Paul

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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Cervantes, Miguel De

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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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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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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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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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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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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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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

William Shakespeare

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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler