Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- J. K. Rowling

Best Quotes about Love

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

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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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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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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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

16.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

23.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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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

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

William Shakespeare

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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

Pascal, Blaise

40.

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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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

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

43.

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

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