Motivational Quotes

Love

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

- West, Mae

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Anouilh, Jean

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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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 a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Aristotle

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

31.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Thurber, James

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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

Willis, Bruce

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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

42.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.