Motivational Quotes

Love

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Love

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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

Bible

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

William Shakespeare

10.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

11.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

12.

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

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Proverb, French

17.

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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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

19.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

20.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

25.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

28.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

30.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

31.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

32.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

33.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

37.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Disney, Walt

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

41.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

44.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

45.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

46.

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

William Shakespeare

47.

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

Osgood, Samuel

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles