Motivational Quotes

Love

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

- Magnani, Anna

Best Quotes about Love

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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

Byron, Lord

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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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

Jeanne Moreau

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

William Shakespeare

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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

William Shakespeare

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Shakespeare, William

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.