Motivational Quotes

Love

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

- Du Coeur

Best Quotes about Love

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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

Willis, Bruce

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

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

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.

10.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

11.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

12.

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

13.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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

16.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

18.

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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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

21.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

23.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Jane Austen

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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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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

28.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

31.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

33.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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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

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

38.

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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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

40.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

42.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

44.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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

DiFranco, Ani

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

49.

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

Anouilh, Jean

50.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.