Motivational Quotes

Love

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

- Harrigan, John

Best Quotes about Love

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

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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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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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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.

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

37.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare