Motivational Quotes

Love

Real love stories never have endings.

- Bach, Richard

Best Quotes about Love

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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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

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bertrand Russell

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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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.

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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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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.