Motivational Quotes

Love

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Love

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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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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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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 a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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 is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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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