Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Love

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

DiFranco, Ani

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Wilde, Kim

11.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

14.

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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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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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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 everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

47.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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