Motivational Quotes

Love

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

- Stendhal, Henri B.

Best Quotes about Love

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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.

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.

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

10.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

11.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

14.

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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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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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.

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

20.

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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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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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mcdonald, George

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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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

29.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

30.

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

William Shakespeare

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Delp, Alexis

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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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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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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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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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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

William Shakespeare

50.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur