Motivational Quotes

Love

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Love

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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.

10.

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

Fromm, Erich

11.

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

12.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

13.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

15.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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

Diane Ackerman

19.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

21.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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

Croft, Roy

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

30.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

31.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

Scott Westerfeld

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

39.

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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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

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

Disney, Walt

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

48.

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

Allen, Woody

49.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.