Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Youngman, Henny

Best Quotes about Love

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Voltaire

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

13.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

14.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

15.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

19.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

22.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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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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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

44.

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

45.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare