Motivational Quotes

Love

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Love

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

10.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

12.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Plato

16.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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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

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If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

27.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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

Scherer, Paul

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

30.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

31.

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

Bible

32.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

33.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

34.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

35.

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

Federman, Irwin

36.

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

Strindberg, J. August

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

40.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

41.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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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

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

Hugo, Victor

45.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

46.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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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 or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

49.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

50.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.