Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Burton, Robert

Best Quotes about Love

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

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

Youngman, Henny

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Eucharista Ward

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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

Bible

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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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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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

James, William

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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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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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

39.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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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.

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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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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry