Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Ackerman, Diane

Best Quotes about Love

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

10.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

12.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

13.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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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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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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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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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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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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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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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 is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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

William Shakespeare

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.