Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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

Nathan, George Jean

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

William Shakespeare

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Heinlein, Robert

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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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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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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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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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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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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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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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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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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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

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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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

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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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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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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

Margaret Cho

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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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

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin