Motivational Quotes

Love

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

- Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Best Quotes about Love

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Ferry, Brian

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

10.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

11.

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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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

16.

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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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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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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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

31.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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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 wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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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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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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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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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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

Wilkerson, David

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.