Motivational Quotes

Love

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

- Donne, John

Best Quotes about Love

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

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.

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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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

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

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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 is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Harrigan, John

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

41.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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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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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary