Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

- Nathan, George Jean

Best Quotes about Love

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Hugo, Victor

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Smith, Sydney

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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

Confucius

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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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

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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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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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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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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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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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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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.