Motivational Quotes

Love

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

- Reik, Theodor

Best Quotes about Love

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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

Hugo, Victor

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

11.

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

12.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

13.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

15.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

16.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

19.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

20.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

21.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

22.

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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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

24.

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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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

28.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

31.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

34.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

35.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

37.

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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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

40.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

41.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

42.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

44.

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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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

47.

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

48.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward