Motivational Quotes

Love

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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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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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

21.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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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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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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

Hugo, Victor

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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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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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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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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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

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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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.