Motivational Quotes

Love

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

- John Scalzi

Best Quotes about Love

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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

William Shakespeare

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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

Augustine, St.

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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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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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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

Dickinson, Emily

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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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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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Proverb

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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 emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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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 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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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali