Motivational Quotes

Love

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

- Bolen, Jean Shinoda

Best Quotes about Love

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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.

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

Groening, Matt

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

10.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

12.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

13.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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

18.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

19.

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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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

25.

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's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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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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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

32.

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

Rita Rudner

33.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

34.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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

Law, William

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

William Penn

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Elizabeth Aston

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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