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

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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

Shaw, George Bernard

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

10.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

11.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

12.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

13.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

14.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

15.

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

Davies, Robertson

16.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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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 is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

19.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

22.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

24.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

25.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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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

27.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

28.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

29.

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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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

31.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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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

34.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

37.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

40.

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

41.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

49.

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare