Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

- Cummings, Fr. Jerome

Best Quotes about Love

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

Stravinsky, Igor

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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

Lewis, Sinclair

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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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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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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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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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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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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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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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

30.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.