Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

William Shakespeare

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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

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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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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

Mooneyham, Stan

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

William Shakespeare

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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

David Viscott

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

33.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Confucius

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Calvino, Italo

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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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

41.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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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.

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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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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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Leunig, Michael