Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

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

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

11.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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

19.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

21.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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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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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

28.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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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

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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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.

Randy K. Milholland