Motivational Quotes

Love

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

- Ferry, Brian

Best Quotes about Love

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

10.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

12.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

18.

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

19.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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

William Shakespeare

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

28.

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 is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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

Chanel, Coco

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

Buscaglia, Leo

34.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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

William Shakespeare

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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

Bible

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

Bridges, Robert

44.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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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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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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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 the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La