Motivational Quotes

Love

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

- Segal, Erich

Best Quotes about Love

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

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

William Shakespeare

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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

Nathan, George Jean

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

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

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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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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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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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.

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Confucius

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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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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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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

Levine, Stephen

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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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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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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

Delp, Alexis

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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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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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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

Chanel, Coco

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles