Motivational Quotes

Love

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

- Martial, Marcus Valerius

Best Quotes about Love

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Proverb

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

10.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

Duras, Marguerite

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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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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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

Southey, Robert

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

35.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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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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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis