Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Love

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

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Menninger, Karl A.

10.

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

11.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

12.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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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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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

16.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

17.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

18.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

19.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

21.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

22.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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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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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

33.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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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

35.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

40.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

41.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

42.

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

Shakespeare, William

43.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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

45.

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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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.