Motivational Quotes

Love

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about 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

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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

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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

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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

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

National Lampoon

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. 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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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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

Peguy, Charles

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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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

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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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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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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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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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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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen