Motivational Quotes

Love

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

- Alan Watts

Best Quotes about Love

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Eucharista Ward

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

12.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

13.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

14.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

16.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

18.

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

Jerome, St.

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

Bible

21.

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

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

23.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Fox, Emmet

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

27.

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

Du Coeur

28.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

29.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

30.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

33.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

34.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

35.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Brown, David

37.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

40.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

44.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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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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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

47.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

48.

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

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.