Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Delp, Alexis

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Real Live Preacher

14.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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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.

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

Youngman, Henny

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

23.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

25.

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

Fromm, Erich

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

28.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

31.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

37.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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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's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor