Motivational Quotes

Love

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

- Tebbets, Frank

Best Quotes about Love

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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

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

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

10.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

11.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

13.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Wilkerson, David

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

20.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

21.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

25.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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

National Lampoon

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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

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

38.

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

Saltus, Edgar

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