Motivational Quotes

Love

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

Best Quotes about Love

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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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.

11.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

12.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

14.

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

Elizabeth Aston

15.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

16.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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

Jean Anouilh

20.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

21.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

23.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

25.

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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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

30.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

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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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

35.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

39.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

40.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

41.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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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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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

44.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

45.

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

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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

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 cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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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