Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Love

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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

Jeph Jacques

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

17.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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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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I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

32.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

33.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Pavese, Cesare

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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

Carroll, Pat

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.