Motivational Quotes

Love

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

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Best Quotes about Love

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

10.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

11.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

12.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

13.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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

Calvino, Italo

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

Saltus, Edgar

17.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

18.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

19.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

20.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

21.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

22.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

23.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

25.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

29.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

30.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

31.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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

33.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Law, William

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

38.

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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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

41.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

42.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

43.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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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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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de