Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

- Davis, Bette

Best Quotes about Love

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

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

11.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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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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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

15.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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

Ovid

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

32.

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

Allen, Woody

33.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

35.

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

William Shakespeare

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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 irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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

Brown, David

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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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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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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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

47.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.