Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Love

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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

Peguy, Charles

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

10.

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

11.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

12.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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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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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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

Proverb, French

17.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

22.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

26.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

27.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

28.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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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 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

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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.

35.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

37.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

39.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

40.

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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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

43.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan