Motivational Quotes

Love

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Love

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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

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

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

10.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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

Seneca

12.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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

Dryden, John

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

20.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Delp, Alexis

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

28.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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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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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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