Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

10.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

11.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

12.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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

Richardson, Nick

15.

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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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

18.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Behn, Aphra

27.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

28.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

32.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

35.

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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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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

Thurber, James

39.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

40.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

41.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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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

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

44.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Pavese, Cesare