Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

11.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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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

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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

Law, William

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Wilkerson, David

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

28.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

30.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

31.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

33.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

34.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

37.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

40.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

42.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

43.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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

William Shakespeare

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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