Motivational Quotes

Love

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

- Kathryn L. Nelson

Best Quotes about Love

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

10.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

11.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

12.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

13.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

14.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

19.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Jane Austen

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The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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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 perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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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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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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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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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Duras, Marguerite

43.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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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