Motivational Quotes

Love

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

- Davies, Robertson

Best Quotes about Love

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

10.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

11.

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

12.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

14.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

15.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

16.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

18.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

19.

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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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

22.

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 wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

25.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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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

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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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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Proverb, French

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

34.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

40.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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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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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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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.

William Shakespeare

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

Rossetti, Christina

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

49.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare