Motivational Quotes

Love

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Love

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Brown, Les

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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

Paolo Giordano

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

10.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

11.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

12.

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

Alan Watts

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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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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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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

27.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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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.

35.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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

Proverb, Spanish

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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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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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.