Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Disney, Walt

Best Quotes about Love

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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

Leunig, Michael

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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

Steinfeld, Jake

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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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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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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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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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

Federman, Irwin

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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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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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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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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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

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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

Sophocles

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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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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.