Motivational Quotes

Love

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Love

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

10.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

11.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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

Euripides

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

15.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

16.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

17.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

18.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

19.

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

20.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

21.

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

Pavese, Cesare

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

25.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

26.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

30.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

36.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

37.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

39.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

42.

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

Barry, Lynda

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

44.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

46.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

48.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

49.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence