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

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Fox, Emmet

11.

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

12.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

13.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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

Mencken, H. L.

16.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

17.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

18.

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

Byron, Lord

19.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

20.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

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

Pascal, Blaise

22.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

23.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

25.

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

26.

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

Federman, Irwin

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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

28.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

29.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

30.

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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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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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

33.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

34.

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

Duras, Marguerite

35.

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

Reagan, Ronald

36.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

39.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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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

44.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

47.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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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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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

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

Traherne, Thomas