Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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

Duras, Marguerite

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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

10.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

11.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

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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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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

Disney, Walt

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare