Motivational Quotes

Love

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

- Mitchell, John N.

Best Quotes about Love

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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

William Shakespeare

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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

Scherer, Paul

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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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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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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.

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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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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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.