Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Love

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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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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'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

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Ferry, Brian

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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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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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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

Bette Davis

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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

Traherne, Thomas

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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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

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Wilde, Oscar

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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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