Motivational Quotes

Love

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

- Smith, Sydney

Best Quotes about Love

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Saltus, Edgar

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Leunig, Michael

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Hay, Louise L.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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

William Shakespeare

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Plato

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.