Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Carroll, Pat

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

Youngman, Henny

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

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Augustine, St.

10.

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

Duras, Marguerite

11.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

13.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

15.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

16.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

20.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

21.

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.

22.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

24.

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

25.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

26.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

27.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

28.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

29.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

31.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

40.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love