Motivational Quotes

Love

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

William Shakespeare

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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

Du Coeur

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

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

Reik, Theodor

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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

10.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

11.

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

12.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

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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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

16.

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

19.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

20.

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

21.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

24.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

25.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

26.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

27.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

28.

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

Connolly, Cyril

29.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

30.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

31.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

32.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Brown, David

35.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

38.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

39.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

40.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.