Motivational Quotes

Love

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Love

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

Proverb, French

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

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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

William Penn

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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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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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Willis, Bruce

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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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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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

37.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

43.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug