Motivational Quotes

Love

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

- Rita Rudner

Best Quotes about Love

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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

11.

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

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

Disney, Walt

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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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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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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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

Levine, Stephen

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Byron, Lord

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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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

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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

Saltus, Edgar

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

41.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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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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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

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

Ovid

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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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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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis