Motivational Quotes

Love

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

- Martial, Marcus Valerius

Best Quotes about Love

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Vicious, Sid

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

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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

Hay, Louise L.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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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

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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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

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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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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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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

Desai, Yogi

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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

William Shakespeare

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Chambless, David

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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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

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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