Motivational Quotes

Love

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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

Mooneyham, Stan

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

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

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

10.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

11.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

12.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

13.

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

Smith, Sydney

14.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

17.

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

Peter Ustinov

18.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

19.

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

20.

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

Carl Jung

21.

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 it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

25.

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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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

30.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

33.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

34.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

36.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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

Julie Morgenstern

38.

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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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

40.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

41.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

42.

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

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord