Motivational Quotes

Love

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

- Paolo Giordano

Best Quotes about Love

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

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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

Voltaire

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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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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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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

Rossetti, Christina

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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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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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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

Peter Ustinov

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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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

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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

Harrigan, John

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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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

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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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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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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

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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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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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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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

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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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]

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