Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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

Meredith, George

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

12.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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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

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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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

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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

Hay, Louise L.

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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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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

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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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

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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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

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare