Motivational Quotes

Love

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

- O'Brien, Edna

Best Quotes about Love

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

William Shakespeare

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

Martineau, Harriet

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

10.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

11.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

12.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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

Wilkerson, David

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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

Hoffman, Lisa

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

31.

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

William Shakespeare

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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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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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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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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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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'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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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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