Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Suttner, Bertha Von

Best Quotes about Love

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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

Wilkerson, David

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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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

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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

Proverb, Jewish

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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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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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco