Motivational Quotes

Love

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

- Youngman, Henny

Best Quotes about Love

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

10.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

11.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

13.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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

Julie Morgenstern

16.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

DiFranco, Ani

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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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

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Byron, Lord

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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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 love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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

Euripides

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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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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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn