Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Love

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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

Sophocles

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

10.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

11.

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

12.

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

Youngman, Henny

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

14.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Augustine, St.

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

William Shakespeare

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

31.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

34.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

35.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.