Motivational Quotes

Love

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

- Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Best Quotes about Love

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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

11.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

12.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

21.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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

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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

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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

27.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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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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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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

Levine, Stephen

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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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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina