Motivational Quotes

Love

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Love

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

11.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

12.

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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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

14.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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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.

17.

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

Aragon, Louis

18.

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

19.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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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 is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

31.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

32.

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

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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

Rowland, Helen

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

42.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

45.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive