Motivational Quotes

Love

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

- Catullus

Best Quotes about Love

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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

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

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.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

11.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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

13.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

14.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

15.

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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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

18.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

20.

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

21.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

22.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

23.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

24.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

25.

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

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

28.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

29.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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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

33.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

44.

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

David Viscott

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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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

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas