Motivational Quotes

Love

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Love

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

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

10.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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

Byron, Lord

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Laing, R. D.

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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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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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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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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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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

Harrigan, John

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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 is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

43.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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