Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

10.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

11.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

12.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

14.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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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

16.

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

Byron, Lord

17.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

18.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

19.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

20.

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

Proust, Marcel

21.

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

22.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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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

24.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

25.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

26.

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

27.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

28.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

29.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

30.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

32.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

33.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

34.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

35.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

37.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

38.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

39.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

41.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

42.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

43.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Duras, Marguerite

45.

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.

46.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

47.

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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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.