Motivational Quotes

Love

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Love

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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

Buscaglia, Leo

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

10.

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

11.

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

Augustine, St.

12.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

14.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

16.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

25.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

27.

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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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Hay, Louise L.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

37.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

41.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

42.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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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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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

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae