Motivational Quotes

Love

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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Best Quotes about Love

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

10.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

11.

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

12.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

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

Brooke, Rupert

15.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

16.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

18.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

19.

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

Elizabeth Aston

20.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

25.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

26.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

27.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

28.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

29.

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

Tracy, Brian

30.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

31.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

32.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

33.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

34.

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

Rowland, Helen

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

William Shakespeare

36.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

37.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

38.

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

40.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

41.

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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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

43.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

46.

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

Behn, Aphra

47.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

48.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul