Motivational Quotes

Love

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

- Jeff Melvoin

Best Quotes about Love

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

Elizabeth Aston

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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

Duras, Marguerite

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.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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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

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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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

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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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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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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

John Sheffield

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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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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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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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?