Motivational Quotes

Love

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

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 what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

14.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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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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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

17.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

18.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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.

20.

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

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

24.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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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

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

27.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

29.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

30.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

31.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

33.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

34.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

37.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

38.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

39.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

40.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

41.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

44.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

46.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare