Motivational Quotes

Love

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

- Parker, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Love

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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

Confucius

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Blanton, Smiley

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

10.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

11.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Scherer, Paul

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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

14.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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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

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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

Donne, John

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

25.

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

Levine, Stephen

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Michael Patrick King

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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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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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

38.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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

Barry, Lynda

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George