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

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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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

18.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

20.

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

Hugo, Victor

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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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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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Meredith, George

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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Nathan, George Jean

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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

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

43.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

45.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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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

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth