Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

Best Quotes about Love

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

Erica Jong

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

10.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

11.

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

Willis, Bruce

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

13.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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

Peter Ustinov

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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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

27.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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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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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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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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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

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

48.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.