Motivational Quotes

Love

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

- Elton, Ben

Best Quotes about Love

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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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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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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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

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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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.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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

William Shakespeare

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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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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

34.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.