Motivational Quotes

Love

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

- Malory, Sir Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Sophocles

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

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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

Menninger, Karl A.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Steinfeld, Jake

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

16.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Hoffman, Lisa

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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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

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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

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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, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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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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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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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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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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

William Shakespeare

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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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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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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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

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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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