Motivational Quotes

Love

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Love

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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

Ice T

11.

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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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

17.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

21.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

28.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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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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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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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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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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

Tracy, Brian

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

49.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite