Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Love

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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

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

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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

10.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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

William Shakespeare

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

18.

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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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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

Auvil, Myrtle

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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

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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

28.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

29.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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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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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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