Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

10.

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

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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

Ovid

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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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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

17.

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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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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

Bette Davis

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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

Rowland, Helen

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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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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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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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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

32.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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

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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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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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 it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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

Thurber, James

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

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