Motivational Quotes

Love

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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Best Quotes about Love

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

10.

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

11.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

12.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

13.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

16.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

18.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

20.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

21.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

24.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

25.

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

Wilkerson, David

27.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

28.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

29.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

30.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

31.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

32.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

33.

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

Pythagoras

34.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

35.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Gibran, Kahlil

40.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

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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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

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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

44.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

46.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

48.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

49.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette