Motivational Quotes

Love

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

- Francis De Sales, St.

Best Quotes about Love

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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

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

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

10.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

14.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

18.

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

National Lampoon

19.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

21.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

24.

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

Brown, David

25.

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

Paolo Giordano

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

27.

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

Bridges, Robert

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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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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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

31.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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

Duffy, Maureen

34.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Euripides

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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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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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

43.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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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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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle