Motivational Quotes

Love

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Love

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

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

William Shakespeare

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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

Steinfeld, Jake

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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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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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.

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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

Plato

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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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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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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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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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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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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mother Teresa

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.