Motivational Quotes

Love

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Love

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Harrigan, John

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Hugo, Victor

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

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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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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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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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

19.

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

Southey, Robert

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

29.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

30.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

32.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

34.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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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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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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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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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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

Ferry, Brian

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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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

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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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 seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.