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

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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

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

Jeph Jacques

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

10.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

11.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

12.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

15.

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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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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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

18.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

19.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

20.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

21.

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

Reagan, Ronald

22.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

Alan Watts

24.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

25.

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

26.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

27.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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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

30.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

31.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

32.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

33.

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

Davies, Robertson

34.

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.

35.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

36.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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

38.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

39.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

40.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.