Motivational Quotes

Love

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

- Barney, Natalie Clifford

Best Quotes about Love

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

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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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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

Julie Morgenstern

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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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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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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

Ovid

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

Proverb, Irish

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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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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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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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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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 not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

50.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward