Motivational Quotes

Love

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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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

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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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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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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

Seneca

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr