Motivational Quotes

Love

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Love

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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

Kent, Sister Corita

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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

Updike, John

10.

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

Ferry, Brian

11.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

12.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mother Teresa

21.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

22.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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

Delp, Alexis

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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

William Shakespeare

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

35.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Toni Morrison

39.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

40.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

41.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

42.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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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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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 always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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

Jerome, St.

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

Sarton, May

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.