Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Paolo Giordano

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

Turner, Ted

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

Diane Ackerman

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

10.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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

William Shakespeare

12.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

13.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

17.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

19.

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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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

21.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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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

24.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Proverb

29.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

30.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

32.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

36.

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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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

40.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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