Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

- Bette Davis

Best Quotes about Love

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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

William Shakespeare

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

10.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

11.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

12.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

14.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

15.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

16.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

17.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

18.

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

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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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

21.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

22.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

23.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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

W. Somerset Maugham

25.

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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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

27.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

28.

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

29.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

30.

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

35.

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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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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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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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

41.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

42.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

48.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

49.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

50.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles