Motivational Quotes

Love

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

- Williams, William Carlos

Best Quotes about Love

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

11.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

12.

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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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

19.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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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

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

27.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

28.

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

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

John Sheffield

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Byron, Lord

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

34.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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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.