Motivational Quotes

Love

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

- Chevalier, Maurice

Best Quotes about Love

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

Peguy, Charles

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Murdoch, Iris

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

10.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

11.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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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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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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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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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

30.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

32.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

33.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

34.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

35.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

40.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

41.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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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

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.