Motivational Quotes

Love

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

- Swift, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Love

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Disney, Walt

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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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

11.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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

John Sheffield

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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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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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Saltus, Edgar

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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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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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

Ice T

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

35.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

38.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

41.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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

Behn, Aphra

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

48.

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

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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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