Motivational Quotes

Love

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

- Chambless, David

Best Quotes about Love

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Erica Jong

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

10.

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

11.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

12.

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

James, William

13.

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

14.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

15.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

16.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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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

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

24.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

25.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

26.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

28.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

30.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

31.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

33.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

34.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

37.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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

Proverb

41.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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

Plato

43.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

46.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

47.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

49.

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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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia