Motivational Quotes

Love

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

- Layton, Irving

Best Quotes about Love

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Thurber, James

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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

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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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 the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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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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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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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.