Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- John of the Cross, St.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Aristotle

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Law, William

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Kempis, Thomas

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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

10.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

12.

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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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

17.

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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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

20.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

21.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

22.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

24.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

25.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

27.

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

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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

John Sheffield

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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

Duras, Marguerite

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.