Motivational Quotes

Love

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Love

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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

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

Peguy, Charles

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

11.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

15.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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

Chanel, Coco

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara 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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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

29.

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

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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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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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

Anouilh, Jean

33.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

34.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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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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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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

James, William

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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

49.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy