Motivational Quotes

Love

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Love

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

Scherer, Paul

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Byron, Lord

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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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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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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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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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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Disraeli, Benjamin