Motivational Quotes

Love

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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Best Quotes about Love

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

Heinlein, Robert

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Scott Westerfeld

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

11.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

12.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

14.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

21.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

23.

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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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

25.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

28.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

29.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

30.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

31.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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

Pascal, Blaise

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

40.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

42.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

43.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

48.

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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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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

Bowen, Elizabeth