Motivational Quotes

Love

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

- Mitchell, John N.

Best Quotes about Love

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Pythagoras

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 only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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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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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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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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

Augustine, St.

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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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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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

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

40.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Brooke, Rupert

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

William Shakespeare

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

45.

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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There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Elizabeth Aston

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