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What Famous People Have to Say about Love

“And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” – John Lennon and Paul McCartney

“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.” – Bette Davis

“The best thing about me is you.” – Shannon Crown

“Men always want to be a woman’s first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man’s last romance.” – Oscar Wilde

“What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.” – St. Augustine

“All you need is love.” – John Lennon & Paul McCartney

“Love never claims, it ever gives.” – Mohandas K. Gandhi

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu

“All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.” – Leo Tolstoy

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.” – Charles Dickens

“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.” – Mark Twain

“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.” – Winston Churchill

“Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” – Mark Twain

“Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with.” – Mark Twain

“If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Herman Hesse

“And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” – John Lennon and Paul McCartney

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” – Plato

“Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.” – Lord Byron

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” – Robert Frost

“I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.” – Françoise Sagan

“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.” – Thomas Fuller

“Who, being loved, is poor?”- Oscar Wilde

“Love in its essence is spiritual fire.” – Emanuel Swedenborg

“A heart that loves is always young.” – Greek Proverb

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Funny and Humorous Quotes

The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. – Robert Bloch

Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway. – Unknown

Everyone has photographic memory; some just don’t have the film. – Unknown

Always remember you’re unique, just like everyone else. – Unknown

funny and humorous quotesEverybody wants to go to heaven; but nobody wants to die. – Unknown

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans – John Lennon

Borrow money from a pessimist – they don’t expect it back. – Unknown

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it. – Unknown

Summer is the season when the air pollution is much warmer – Unknown

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman. – Maryon Pearson

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? – Unknown

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. – Unknown

What do you mean, my birth certificate expired? – Unknown

When I eventually met Mr Right I had no idea that his first name was Always. – Rita Rudner

24 Empowering Quotes

“I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.” ~ Jimi Hendrix

“Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.” ~ Tecumseh

“You have to do stuff that average people don’t understand because those are the only good things.” ~ Andy Warhol

“When I’m trusting and being myself… everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.” ~ Shakti Gawain

“One of the secrets of life is to be honestly who you are. Who others want you to be, who you used to be, and who you may some day become … these are fantasies. To be honestly who you are is to give up your illusions and face today with courage.” ~ Bill Purdin

“Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.” ~ Judy Garland

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning to work on becoming yourself.” ~ Anna Quindlen

“I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.” ~ Anwar el-Sadat

“The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.” ~ Rod Steiger

“Never think you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.” ~ Anthony Trollope

empowering quotes“Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.” ~ Hasidic Saying

“The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one’s self.” ~ Nietzsche

“But the lightning which explodes and fashions planets, maker of planets and suns, is in him. On one side elemental order, sandstone and granite, rock-ledges, peat-bog, forest, sea and shore; and on the other part, thought, the spirit which composes and decomposes nature,—here they are, side by side, god and devil, mind and matter, king and conspirator, belt and spasm, riding peacefully together in the eye and brain of every man.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.” ~ Unknown

“If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.” ~ Unknown

“You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You’re on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.” ~ Dr. Seuss

“It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.” ~ Epicurus

“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.” ~ African Proverb

“The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.” ~ Sonya Friedman

“You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!” ~ John Lennon

“If you have someone hating on you right now, you better think of how to get 5 more people hating by Christmas. You need haters to make you stronger. Without haters, most people wouldn’t try to become better. Just tell them ‘bitch you just hate me because you can’t be me…’” ~ Katt Williams

“Don’t try so hard to fit it when you were born to stand out.” – Unknown

“Pay no mind to those who talk behind your back, it simply means that you are two steps ahead.” ~ Unknown

“People who lack the strength to be themselves are always trying to tear down those who do.” ~ Unknown

Saturday’s Love Quotes

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. ~ Janos Arany

You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. ~ Dr. Seuss

With love and patience, nothing is impossible. ~ Daisaku Ikeda

I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you ~ Ben Folds

love quotesI think its nice when people find love, because I feel like everyone deserves it. ~ Drew Barrymore

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence ~ Vincent Van Gogh

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

Everything is clearer when you’re in love. ~ John Lennon

Inspirational Love Quotes

Love is not a matter of counting the years – it’s making the years. – Anonymous

True love has no limits. – Mother Theresa

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. – St. Augustine

Love is the beauty of the soul. – Dr. Karl Menninger

Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. – John Lennon

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear. – Octavio Paz

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion. – Unknown Author

In love, one and one are one.one – Emmet Fox

If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world . . . – William S. Burroughs

Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will. – William S. Burroughs

Inspirational Love Quotes

Short Love Quotes

After a great piece of Short Tattoo Quotes, let me share with you some Short Love Quotes. Please enjoy, share, and tell us what’s your favorite from this list.

“Love makes time pass; time makes love pass” – French Proverb

“It is not love, but lack of love which is blind” – Glenway Wescott

“First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity” – George Bernard Shaw

“The hottest love has the coldest end” – Socrates

“Forget love… I’d rather fall in chocolate” – Unknown

“He who is not impatient is not in love” – Italian Proverb

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder” – William Shakespeare

“Love is blind — marriage is the eye-opener” – Pauline Thomason

“Better to have loved and lost then to have never loved at all” – Hemmingway

“The ones that you love the most are usually the ones that hurt you the most” – Kati

Short Love Quotes“Love doesn’t make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile” – Elizabeth Browning

“A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesnt believe, and leaves before she is left” – Marilyn Monroe

“Love is like a war: Easy to begin Hard to end” – Ancient Proverbs

“Live the life you’ve dreamed” – Henry David Thoreau

“Falling in love is awfully simple, but falling out of love is simply awful” – Unknown

“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear” – John Lennon

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them” – Mother Teresa

“I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you” – Roy Croft

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart” – Helen Keller

“To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world” – Heather Cortez

“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime” – Bette Davis

“If you love me, let me know. If not, please gently let me go” – Unknown

“When you are in Love you can’t fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams” – Dr. Seuss

“The best thing about me is you” – Shannon Crown

“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death” – Thomas Mann

Best Love Quotes

”Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy. ” Audre Lorde

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

”True love stories never have endings. ” Richard Bach

”In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. ” Erich Fromm

”In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable. ” Madame de Stael

”Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’ ” Erich Fromm

”Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s. ” Madame de Stael

”If you want to be loved, be lovable. ” Ovid

”Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. ” C. S. Lewis

”Love is more than a noun – it is a verb; it is more than a feeling – it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing. ” William Arthur Ward

”If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. ” Michel de Montaigne

”A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven. ” Boethius

”Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. ” Maya Angelou

”If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. ” A. A. Milne

”A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. ” Stendhal

”Love is a better teacher than duty. ” Albert Einstein

”If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world. ” Emmet Fox

”If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. ” Maya Angelou

”I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. ” George Eliot

”Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there’s love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. ” Ella Fitzgerald

”I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. ” Daphne Rae

”What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow. ” Nathaniel Hawthorne

”I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. ” Judy Garland

”A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. ” Honore de Balzac

”A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night. ” Marilyn Monroe

”How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it. ” Barbara Pym

”All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. ” Andre Breton

”Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ” Peter Ustinov

”Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ” Albert Einstein

”If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliché that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal. ” John Lennon

”Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never. ” Charles Caleb Colton

”Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love. I’d stepped in it a few times. ” Rita Rudner

”One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. ” Sophocles

”For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. ” Judy Garland

”Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. ” Martin Luther King, Jr.

”First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. ” George Bernard Shaw

”A life lived in love will never be dull. ” Leo Buscaglia

”Do all things with love. ” Og Mandino

”The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. ” Vincent van Gogh

”Come live in my heart, and pay no rent. ” Samuel Lover

”Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ” Rumi

”Can miles truly separate you from friends? If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there? ” Richard Bach

”At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ” Plato

”Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone. ” C. S. Lewis

”A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. ” Thomas Carlyle

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Motivational Work Quotes

No bees, no honey; no work, no money. – Proverbs

Work is life, you know, and without it, there’s nothing but fear and insecurity. – John Lennon

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. – Vaclav Havel

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. – Sir William Osier

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. – Aristotle

Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product. – Henry Ford

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. – Richard Bach

When people go to work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home. – Betty Bender

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun. – Colleen C. Barrett

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. – John Bay

Workaholics commit slow suicide by refusing to allow the child inside them to play. – Dr. Laurence Susser

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity. – Alberta Flanders

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results. – James Lane Allen

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer