Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Duffy, Maureen

Best Quotes about Love

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

10.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

11.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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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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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

22.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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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

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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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

28.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

32.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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

34.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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

Hugo, Victor

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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

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

40.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

41.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

42.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

43.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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

Charles M. Schulz

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.