Motivational Quotes

Love

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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Best Quotes about Love

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

10.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

11.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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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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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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

Hay, Louise L.

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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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.

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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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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

32.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Delp, Alexis

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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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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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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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted