Motivational Quotes

Love

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

- Buscaglia, Leo

Best Quotes about Love

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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

William Shakespeare

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

Lennon, John

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

10.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

11.

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

12.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

13.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

15.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

16.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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

William Shakespeare

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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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

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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

William Shakespeare

24.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

25.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

26.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

27.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

38.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

39.

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

Peguy, Charles

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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

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

42.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

43.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

45.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

46.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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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.