Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Love

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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

Vicious, Sid

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Ackerman, Diane

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

10.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

11.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

12.

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

13.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

14.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

15.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

25.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

26.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

27.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

28.

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

29.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

30.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

31.

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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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

33.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

34.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

35.

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

36.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

37.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

38.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

40.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

41.

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

Disney, Walt

42.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

43.

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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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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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