Motivational Quotes

Love

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

- Cholmondeley, Mary

Best Quotes about Love

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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

Confucius

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

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

David Viscott

11.

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

Disney, Walt

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

14.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

17.

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

William Shakespeare

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

20.

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 one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

23.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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

Buscaglia, Leo

30.

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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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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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

35.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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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 bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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

Bourget, Paul

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I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

47.

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

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace