Motivational Quotes

Love

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Love

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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

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

Hoffman, Lisa

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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

William Shakespeare

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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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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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

Bridges, Robert

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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

Laing, R. D.

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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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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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

Nathan, George Jean

37.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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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

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

44.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

45.

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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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

48.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo