Motivational Quotes

Love

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

- Trefusis, Violet

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Brown, David

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

Menninger, Karl A.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

10.

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

11.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

13.

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

14.

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

Scott Westerfeld

15.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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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

18.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

19.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

20.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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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

23.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

24.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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

Duras, Marguerite

28.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

29.

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

Carl Jung

30.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

31.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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

David Viscott

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

40.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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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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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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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

44.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

45.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.