Motivational Quotes

Love

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Love

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Carlyle, Thomas

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

10.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

11.

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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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

14.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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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

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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

18.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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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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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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

John Sheffield

23.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

25.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

26.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

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

Carl Jung

29.

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

30.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

31.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

34.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

35.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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

William Shakespeare

37.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

40.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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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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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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

Wilkerson, David

49.

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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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert