Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Croft, Roy

Best Quotes about Love

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Bourget, Paul

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

10.

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

11.

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

Alan Watts

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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

William Shakespeare

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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

Aristotle

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

Erica Jong

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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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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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

45.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

48.

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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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De