Motivational Quotes

Love

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

10.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

11.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Law, William

13.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

14.

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

Hoffman, Lisa

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

18.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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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

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

31.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

33.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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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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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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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

47.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae