Motivational Quotes

Love

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

- Pavese, Cesare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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

William Shakespeare

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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

Allen, Woody

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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 possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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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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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

31.

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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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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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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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence