Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Love

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

10.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Blanton, Smiley

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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

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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

Behn, Aphra

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

20.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

22.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

33.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

34.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

35.

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

Saltus, Edgar

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

42.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

43.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

45.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Proverb, Spanish

47.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Elizabeth Aston

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice