Motivational Quotes

Love

The only victory over love is flight.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Love

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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

Reagan, Ronald

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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

William Shakespeare

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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

Scherer, Paul

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Anouilh, Jean

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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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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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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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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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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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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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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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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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Hay, Louise L.

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.