Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

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

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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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

14.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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

Scherer, Paul

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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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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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

21.

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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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

23.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

27.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

28.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

30.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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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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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

45.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

46.

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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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

49.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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