Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

- Toni Morrison

Best Quotes about Love

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

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

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

Hay, Louise L.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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

Duras, Marguerite

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

13.

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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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

Plato

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

Rossetti, Christina

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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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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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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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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Mencken, H. L.

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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