Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

10.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

11.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

12.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

13.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

14.

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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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

17.

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

Rossetti, Christina

18.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

19.

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

20.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

21.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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

Delp, Alexis

27.

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

Saltus, Edgar

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

29.

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

Barry, Lynda

30.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

31.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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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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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

40.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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

William Shakespeare

42.

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

43.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

44.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

45.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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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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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.