Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

10.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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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

12.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

14.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

18.

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

19.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

20.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

22.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Euripides

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

25.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

26.

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

27.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

31.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

32.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

34.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

35.

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

Allen, Woody

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

39.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Irving, Washington

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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

44.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

45.

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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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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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

49.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.