Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Bailey, Pearl

Best Quotes about Love

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

12.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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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

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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

15.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

16.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

17.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

18.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

19.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

20.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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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

23.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

24.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

25.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

26.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

27.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

28.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

29.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

30.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

32.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

34.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

35.

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

36.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

37.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

38.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

40.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

41.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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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

45.

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, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

47.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

48.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.