Motivational Quotes

Love

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Love

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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

Updike, John

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

10.

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

Bible

11.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

12.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

14.

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 spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

16.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

William Shakespeare

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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

19.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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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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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

24.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

25.

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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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

27.

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

Ice T

28.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

29.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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

Thurber, James

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

36.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

37.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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

Hay, Louise L.

39.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

41.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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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 surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.