Motivational Quotes

Love

A heart that loves is always young.

- Proverb, Greek

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Murdoch, Iris

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

10.

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

Martineau, Harriet

11.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

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

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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

Jean Anouilh

16.

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 low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

19.

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

Calvino, Italo

20.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

21.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

25.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

26.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

27.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

28.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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

Augustine, St.

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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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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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

35.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

36.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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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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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

40.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

41.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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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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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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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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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

49.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace