Motivational Quotes

Love

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

- Jane Austen

Best Quotes about Love

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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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

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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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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

23.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

25.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

31.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

32.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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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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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

40.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.