Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Ferry, Brian

Best Quotes about Love

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

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Kent, Sister Corita

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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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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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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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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

Harrigan, 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, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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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

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Fromm, Erich

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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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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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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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

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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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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas