Motivational Quotes

Love

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Love

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Ovid

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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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, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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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

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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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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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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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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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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

Youngman, Henny

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Bible

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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

Murdoch, Iris

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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.