Motivational Quotes

Love

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

- Duras, Marguerite

Best Quotes about Love

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

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Jeanne Moreau

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

10.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

11.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

12.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

13.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

14.

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

15.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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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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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

18.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

19.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

20.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

21.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Clark, Melanie

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

25.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

26.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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

30.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Fromm, Erich

33.

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

Chanel, Coco

34.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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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

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

41.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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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.

Davis, Bette

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