Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

- Toni Morrison

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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

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

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

12.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

13.

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

Disney, Walt

14.

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

National Lampoon

15.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

18.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

23.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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

Southey, Robert

25.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

26.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Chambless, David

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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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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

43.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

44.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

45.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

48.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy