Motivational Quotes

Love

We were two and had but one heart between us.

- Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

Best Quotes about Love

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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

W. Somerset Maugham

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

10.

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

11.

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

Croft, Roy

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

20.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

24.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

25.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

27.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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

Rita Rudner

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

Calvino, Italo

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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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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

William Shakespeare

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

35.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

40.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

41.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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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 means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas