Motivational Quotes

Love

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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

Charles M. Schulz

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

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

10.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

11.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

12.

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

13.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

15.

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

16.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

19.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

20.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

21.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

22.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

24.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

25.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

27.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

31.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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

John of the Cross, St.

35.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

37.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

40.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

42.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

43.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

44.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

45.

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

Anderson, Margaret

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

49.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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