Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Love

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Allen, Woody

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

11.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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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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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

20.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

21.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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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

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

28.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

30.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Irving, Washington

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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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 is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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

Du Coeur

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hay, Louise L.

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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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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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 is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov