Motivational Quotes

Love

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

- Segal, Erich

Best Quotes about Love

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Petrarch, Francesco

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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

William Shakespeare

10.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

11.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

13.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

14.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

15.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

16.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

18.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

19.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

20.

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

21.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

22.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

25.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

26.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

27.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

28.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

29.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

34.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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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 life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

39.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

40.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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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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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

48.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

50.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest