Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

11.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

14.

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

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

Byron, Lord

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

23.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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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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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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

Proverb, French

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

45.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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

William Shakespeare

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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Love is all you need.