Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a serious mental disease.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Love

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Confucius

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

10.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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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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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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

Southey, Robert

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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

31.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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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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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 like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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

Auerbach, Red

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.