Motivational Quotes

Love

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about Love

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

10.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

12.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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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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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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

William Shakespeare

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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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

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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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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

38.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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

Du Coeur

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

Marlowe, Christopher

42.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston