Motivational Quotes

Love

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

- Jeph Jacques

Best Quotes about Love

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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

Murdoch, Iris

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

10.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

11.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

12.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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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.

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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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

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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

Shakespeare, William

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

26.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

30.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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

Thurber, James

32.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

33.

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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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

35.

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

Hugo, Victor

36.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

39.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

40.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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

46.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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

Scott Westerfeld

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De