Motivational Quotes

Love

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

- Bowen, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Love

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

10.

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

Groening, Matt

11.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

12.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

17.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

19.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

20.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

21.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

22.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

25.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

27.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

28.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

29.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

30.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

31.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

32.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

33.

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

34.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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

William Shakespeare

42.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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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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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.