Motivational Quotes

Love

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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

Hugo, Victor

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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

Jane Austen

10.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

11.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

12.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

13.

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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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

19.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

20.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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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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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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

Seneca

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

29.

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

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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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 no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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

Proverb, Japanese

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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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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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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

44.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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

Disney, Walt

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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.

Bette Davis

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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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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De