Motivational Quotes

Love

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

- Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

William Shakespeare

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

10.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

11.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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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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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

26.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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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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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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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