Motivational Quotes

Love

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

- Chambless, David

Best Quotes about Love

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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

Irving, Washington

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

Du Coeur

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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

William Shakespeare

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

12.

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

Ferry, Brian

13.

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

14.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

19.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

28.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

30.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

32.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

33.

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

Hay, Louise L.

34.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

35.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

36.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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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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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

43.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

45.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

49.

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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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas