Motivational Quotes

Love

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

- Murdoch, Iris

Best Quotes about Love

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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

Wilde, Oscar

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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.

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

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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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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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

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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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

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Capote, Truman

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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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 not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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

Martineau, Harriet

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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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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