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

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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

William Shakespeare

10.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Euripides

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

Julie Morgenstern

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare