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

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

10.

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

Lennon, John

11.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

17.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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 is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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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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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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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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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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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb

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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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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

38.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

43.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Voltaire