Motivational Quotes

Love

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Love

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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

Chanel, Coco

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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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's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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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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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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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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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

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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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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.