Motivational Quotes

Love

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

- Vicious, Sid

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

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

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Chambless, David

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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

Pavese, Cesare

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

11.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

12.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

13.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

14.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

15.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Capote, Truman

18.

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

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

22.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

23.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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

Augustine, St.

25.

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

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

30.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

32.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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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

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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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

40.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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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

42.

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

43.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

44.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

45.

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

Auerbach, Red

46.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

47.

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 and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

49.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

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