Motivational Quotes

Love

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

- Segal, Erich

Best Quotes about Love

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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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

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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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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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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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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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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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

35.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

36.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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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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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.