Motivational Quotes

Love

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

- Ice T

Best Quotes about Love

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

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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.

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

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Wilde, Oscar

10.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

12.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

15.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

16.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

17.

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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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

19.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

21.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Toni Morrison

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

25.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

29.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

30.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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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

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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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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

35.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Bible

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.