Motivational Quotes

Love

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

- Sesame Street

Best Quotes about Love

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

10.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

11.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

12.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

13.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

14.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

18.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

21.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

22.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

30.

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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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

32.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

33.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

40.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

42.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

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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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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.