Motivational Quotes

Love

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

- Julie Morgenstern

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

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

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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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

25.

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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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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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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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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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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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

46.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas