Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

- Blanton, Smiley

Best Quotes about Love

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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

Hay, Louise L.

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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

Scherer, Paul

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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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

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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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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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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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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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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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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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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