Motivational Quotes

Love

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

10.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

11.

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

12.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

13.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

14.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

John Sheffield

17.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

18.

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

Dickinson, Emily

19.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

20.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

21.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

22.

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

Brown, David

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

25.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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

Bible

27.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

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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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

32.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

33.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

36.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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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

39.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

40.

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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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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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.

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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

45.

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

Sarton, May

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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

Thurber, James

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

49.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

50.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.