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

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

23.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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.

Bette Davis

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

29.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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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

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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

William Shakespeare

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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

Peter Ustinov

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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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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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt