Motivational Quotes

Love

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

- Teasdale, Sara

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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

10.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

11.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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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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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

19.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

29.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

32.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Capote, Truman

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

39.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

William Shakespeare

45.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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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.

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

48.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

49.

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

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

Eliot, T. S.