Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

- Capote, Truman

Best Quotes about Love

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

William Penn

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Fromm, Erich

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

10.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

11.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

12.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

13.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

16.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

17.

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

18.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

23.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

25.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

26.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Hay, Louise L.

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

30.

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

31.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

32.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

34.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

35.

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.

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

38.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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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

40.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

41.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

42.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.