Motivational Quotes

Love

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Best Quotes about Love

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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

Harrigan, John

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

10.

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.

11.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

12.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

13.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

16.

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

Elizabeth Aston

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

19.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

21.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

22.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

27.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

29.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

30.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

31.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

32.

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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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther