Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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

Aristotle

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

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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

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

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

Diane Ackerman

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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

11.

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

12.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

13.

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

14.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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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

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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

William Shakespeare

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

21.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Hazlitt, William

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

36.

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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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

38.

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

Buddha

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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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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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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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina