Motivational Quotes

Love

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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

Martineau, Harriet

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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

Menninger, Karl A.

10.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

11.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

12.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

15.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

18.

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

Allen, Woody

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

William Shakespeare

20.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

25.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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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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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

30.

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

Diane Ackerman

31.

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

Heinlein, Robert

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

33.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

34.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

35.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

39.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

40.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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

Wilkerson, David

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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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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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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

Capote, Truman