Motivational Quotes

Love

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

- Murdoch, Iris

Best Quotes about Love

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

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

Davis, Bette

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.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

10.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

11.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

12.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

13.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

16.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Disney, Walt

21.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

22.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

25.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

28.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

29.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

30.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

31.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

32.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

33.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

34.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

37.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

38.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

39.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Harrigan, John

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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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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

47.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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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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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet