Motivational Quotes

Love

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Love

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

Mother Teresa

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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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.

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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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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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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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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

18.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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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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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Plato

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Dane, Frank

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

41.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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

Vicious, Sid

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis