Motivational Quotes

Love

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Love

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

Jeph Jacques

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Jean Anouilh

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Behn, Aphra

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

19.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

23.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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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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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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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

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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.

Layton, Irving

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

40.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Hoffman, Lisa

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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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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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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