Motivational Quotes

Love

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

10.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

11.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

14.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

15.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

16.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

17.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

18.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

19.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

20.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

24.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

25.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

27.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

28.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

29.

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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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

31.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

32.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

35.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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

William Shakespeare