Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Reik, Theodor

Best Quotes about Love

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

11.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

17.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

18.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Mcdonald, George

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

21.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

22.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

23.

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

24.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

25.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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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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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

31.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

32.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

34.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

35.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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

37.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

38.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

39.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Disney, Walt