Motivational Quotes

Love

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Love

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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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

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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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 way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Allen, Woody

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

34.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

William Shakespeare

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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

Friedrich Nietzsche