Motivational Quotes

Love

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

- Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

Best Quotes about Love

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

11.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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

Scherer, Paul

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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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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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

29.

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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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Disney, Walt

33.

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

Bible

34.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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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.

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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

Law, William

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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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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

49.

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

Margaret Cho

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare