Motivational Quotes

Love

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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

Ackerman, Diane

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

12.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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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

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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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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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

29.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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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

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

Clark, Melanie

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

40.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

42.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Thurber, James

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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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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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett