Motivational Quotes

Love

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

- Lessing, Doris

Best Quotes about Love

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

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Byron, Lord

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

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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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 friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

23.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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

National Lampoon

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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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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi