Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Love

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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

Confucius

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

Proverb, Jewish

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

10.

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

11.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

12.

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

Capote, Truman

13.

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

Rossetti, Christina

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

17.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

18.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

19.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

20.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

21.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

22.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

23.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

24.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

25.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

27.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

28.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

29.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

30.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

33.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

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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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

40.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

41.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

42.

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

43.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.