Motivational Quotes

Love

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

- Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

Best Quotes about Love

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

10.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

11.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

12.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

13.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

15.

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

16.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

17.

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

Connolly, Cyril

18.

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.

19.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

21.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

23.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

24.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

25.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

26.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

27.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

28.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

29.

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

Allen, Woody

30.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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

William Shakespeare

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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

Jean Anouilh

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

Barry, Lynda

37.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

38.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

39.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

40.

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

42.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

43.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

45.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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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