Motivational Quotes

Love

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Love

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Byron, Lord

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

12.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

13.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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

Bertrand Russell

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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

33.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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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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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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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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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake