Motivational Quotes

Love

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

- Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Best Quotes about Love

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Buscaglia, Leo

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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

National Lampoon

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

Buddha

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Auvil, Myrtle

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Nathan, George Jean

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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

Rossetti, Christina

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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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

36.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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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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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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