Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Pavese, Cesare

Best Quotes about Love

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

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

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Gibran, Kahlil

10.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

11.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

13.

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

Law, William

14.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

15.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

16.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

17.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

18.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

19.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

20.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

21.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

25.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

28.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

29.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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

33.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

37.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

38.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

39.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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

Wilde, Kim

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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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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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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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

50.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare