Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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

Augustine, St.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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

Peter Ustinov

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Southey, Robert

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

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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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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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

Chanel, Coco

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

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