Motivational Quotes

Love

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

- National Lampoon

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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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 a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

23.

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

Vicious, Sid

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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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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

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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

West, Mae

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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

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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

Real Live Preacher

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen