Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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

William Shakespeare

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

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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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

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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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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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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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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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Dane, Frank

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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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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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita