Motivational Quotes

Love

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

10.

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

Lao-Tzu

11.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

12.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

13.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

15.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

16.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

17.

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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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

20.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

21.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

23.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

27.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

28.

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

Turner, Ted

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

30.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

32.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

33.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

34.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

35.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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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

39.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

41.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

43.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

44.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

46.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

47.

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

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost