Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Best Quotes about Love

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

William Shakespeare

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

10.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

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

12.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

13.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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

Elizabeth Aston

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

18.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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

Fox, Emmet

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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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

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

30.

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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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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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

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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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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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Bible

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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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