Motivational Quotes

Love

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

- Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Best Quotes about Love

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

10.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

11.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

12.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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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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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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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

19.

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

William Shakespeare

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

21.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

23.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

24.

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

William Shakespeare

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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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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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

39.

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

40.

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

Fox, Emmet

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

Bible

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison