Motivational Quotes

Love

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

- Eschenbach, Marie E.

Best Quotes about Love

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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

Chanel, Coco

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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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

11.

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

Barry, Lynda

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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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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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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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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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

25.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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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.

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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

31.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Duras, Marguerite

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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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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara 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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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare