Motivational Quotes

Love

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

- Dioum, Baba

Best Quotes about Love

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Croft, Roy

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

William Shakespeare

10.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

11.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

12.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

13.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

14.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

15.

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

Proverb, Japanese

16.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

17.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

19.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

20.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

21.

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

22.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

25.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

27.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

29.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

30.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

31.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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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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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

34.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

35.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

36.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

37.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

38.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

39.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

40.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

41.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

42.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

46.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

47.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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