Motivational Quotes

Love

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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Best Quotes about Love

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

10.

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

Nathan, George Jean

11.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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

Delp, Alexis

13.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

15.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

16.

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

West, Mae

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

25.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

27.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

28.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

29.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

30.

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

Carroll, Pat

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

38.

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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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

40.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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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

42.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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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

45.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

46.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

47.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

48.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

49.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt