Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

10.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

11.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

13.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

14.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

15.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

16.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

17.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

18.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

19.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

20.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

21.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

23.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

24.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

25.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

26.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

28.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

33.

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

Dryden, John

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

36.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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

William Shakespeare

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

Seneca

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

40.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

43.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

44.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

45.

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

46.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

47.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich