Motivational Quotes

Love

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

11.

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

Capote, Truman

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

17.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Disney, Walt

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

24.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

31.

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

Osgood, Samuel

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

William Shakespeare

33.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

34.

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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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

36.

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

Diane Ackerman

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

38.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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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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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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

Brown, Les

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare