Motivational Quotes

Love

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Love

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Stravinsky, Igor

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

National Lampoon

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

10.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

13.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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

Proverb, French

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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

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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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

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

William Shakespeare

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

39.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

44.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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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.

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of