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

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

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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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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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

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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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

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Real Live Preacher

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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

Harrigan, John

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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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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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

Byron, Lord

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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 magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.