Motivational Quotes

Love

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Love

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

10.

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

11.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

12.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

15.

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

Michael Patrick King

16.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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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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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

24.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Euripides

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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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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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

30.

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

Auvil, Myrtle

31.

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

32.

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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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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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

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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

Wilde, Kim

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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

Anderson, Margaret

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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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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris