Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Donne, John

Best Quotes about Love

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

Hertl, Nick

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

10.

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

11.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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

William Shakespeare

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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

18.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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 life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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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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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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

Scott Westerfeld

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

49.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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