Motivational Quotes

Love

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Love

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Ice T

11.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

12.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

13.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

15.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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

Buddha

17.

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

Law, William

18.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

19.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

20.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

21.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

23.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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.

25.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

28.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

29.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

31.

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.

32.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

34.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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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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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

39.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

40.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

41.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

42.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

43.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

44.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

45.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

49.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.