Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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

William Shakespeare

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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

William Shakespeare

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

11.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

12.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

14.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

15.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

16.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

19.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

20.

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 not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

24.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

25.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

26.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

27.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

29.

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 never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

33.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

38.

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

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

Elizabeth Aston

40.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

41.

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

James, William

42.

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

Clark, Melanie

43.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

44.

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

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

46.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas