Motivational Quotes

Love

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

- Sarton, May

Best Quotes about Love

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

William Shakespeare

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

10.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

11.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

12.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

13.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

14.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

15.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

16.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

17.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

18.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

19.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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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

25.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

William Shakespeare

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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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 only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

34.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Jean Anouilh

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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 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

41.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

43.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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