Motivational Quotes

Love

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

- Paolo Giordano

Best Quotes about Love

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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

Thurber, James

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.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

11.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

12.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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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

16.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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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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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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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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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare