Motivational Quotes

Love

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Love

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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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

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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

Elizabeth Aston

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas