Motivational Quotes

Love

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

- Martial, Marcus Valerius

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bourget, Paul

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

11.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

12.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

14.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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

16.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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

Scherer, Paul

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

25.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

27.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

30.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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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 was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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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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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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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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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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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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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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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 all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De