Motivational Quotes

Love

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Bible

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

Bible

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Sophocles

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

Dyer, Wayne

10.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

11.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

12.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

13.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

14.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

15.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

16.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

17.

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

Leunig, Michael

18.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

19.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

20.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

21.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

22.

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

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

25.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

27.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

28.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

29.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

30.

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

31.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

32.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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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.

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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

38.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

42.

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

43.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

44.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

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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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh