Motivational Quotes

Love

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Love

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

12.

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

Vicious, Sid

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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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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Elizabeth Aston

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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

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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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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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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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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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Hazlitt, William

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew