Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Love

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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

Dane, Frank

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Proverb, Spanish

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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

Charles M. Schulz

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois 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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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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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Law, William

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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.

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich