Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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

Dane, Frank

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

10.

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

11.

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

12.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

14.

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

Pascal, Blaise

15.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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

Voltaire

17.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

18.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

19.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

20.

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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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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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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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

25.

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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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

30.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

33.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Steinfeld, Jake

37.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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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

39.

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

Connolly, Cyril

40.

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

Diane Ackerman

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

42.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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

Carroll, Pat

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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

Jean Anouilh

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey