Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

- Peter Ustinov

Best Quotes about Love

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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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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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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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Pavese, Cesare

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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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

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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

Brown, Les

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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

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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

Smith, Sydney

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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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Rossetti, Christina

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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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

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek