Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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

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

National Lampoon

10.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

11.

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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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

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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

Duffy, Maureen

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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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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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

18.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

19.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Buddha

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

26.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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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

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

30.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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

Jennifer Aniston

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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

33.

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

Proverb, Jewish

34.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Laing, R. D.

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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

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

42.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

43.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Ovid

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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.

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich