Motivational Quotes

Love

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Love

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

10.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

11.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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

Bourget, Paul

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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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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Confucius

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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

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

25.

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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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

28.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

30.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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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 gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

36.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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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

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

40.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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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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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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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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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