Motivational Quotes

Love

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

- Baudrillard, Jean

Best Quotes about Love

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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

Carmichael, Amy

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

10.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

11.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

13.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

Euripides

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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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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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

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 and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

31.

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

Proverb, Irish

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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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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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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Victor Hugo

40.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

41.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare