Motivational Quotes

Love

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

William Shakespeare

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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

Victor Hugo

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Mencken, H. L.

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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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 has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Crawshaw, Richard

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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 wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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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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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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True love is the parent of humility.