Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

- Stael, Germaine De

Best Quotes about Love

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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

Diane Ackerman

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

Hay, Louise L.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

12.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Saltus, Edgar

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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

William Shakespeare

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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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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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

28.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

29.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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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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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Vicious, Sid

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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

Connolly, Cyril

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

50.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake