Motivational Quotes

Love

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

- Davies, Robertson

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

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

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

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.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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

William Shakespeare

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

Shakespeare, William

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

10.

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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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

12.

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

Groening, Matt

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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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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

15.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

16.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

18.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

19.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

22.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

25.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

28.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

29.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

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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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

35.

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

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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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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

41.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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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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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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

49.

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

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki