Motivational Quotes

Love

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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

Rossetti, Christina

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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

W. Somerset Maugham

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

William Shakespeare

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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

Euripides

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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 is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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

Dickinson, Emily

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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

Augustine, St.

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Clark, Melanie

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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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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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary