Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Bowen, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Love

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

10.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

11.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

12.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

13.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

14.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

15.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

16.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

17.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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

Rossetti, Christina

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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

25.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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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

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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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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

31.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

32.

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

William Penn

33.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

35.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

36.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

38.

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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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

40.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

41.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

43.

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

William Shakespeare

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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

Behn, Aphra

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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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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

49.

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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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher