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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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

Plato

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

Jeanne Moreau

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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

10.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

11.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

12.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

13.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

15.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

16.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

25.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

26.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

29.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

30.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

39.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

44.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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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 is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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