Motivational Quotes

Love

We live in the world when we love it.

- Tagore, Rabindranath

Best Quotes about Love

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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

National Lampoon

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

Orwell, George

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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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

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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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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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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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

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

William Shakespeare

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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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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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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

Southey, Robert

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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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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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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

Shaw, George Bernard