Motivational Quotes

Love

Every man loves what he is good at.

- Shadwell, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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

Augustine, St.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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

Proust, Marcel

10.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

11.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

14.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

16.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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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 the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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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

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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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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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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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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

West, Mae

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

Bourget, Paul

31.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

32.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

33.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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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

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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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

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

44.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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

Fox, Emmet

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

William Shakespeare

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De