Motivational Quotes

Love

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

- Warhol, Andy

Best Quotes about Love

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

DiFranco, Ani

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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

Southey, Robert

10.

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.

11.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

18.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

19.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

20.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

25.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

26.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

32.

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

33.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

34.

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

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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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

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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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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

40.

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

41.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

42.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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

Behn, Aphra

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

50.

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

Dickinson, Emily