Motivational Quotes

Love

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Love

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

15.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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

Brown, David

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wilkerson, David

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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

Dyer, Wayne

28.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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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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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Behn, Aphra

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

44.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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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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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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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