Motivational Quotes

Love

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Pilgrim, Peace

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Strindberg, J. August

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

11.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

12.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

13.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Bacon, Francis

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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

Pythagoras

22.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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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

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

William Shakespeare

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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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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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

41.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

43.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

47.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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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