Motivational Quotes

Love

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

- Randy K. Milholland

Best Quotes about Love

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Hugo, Victor

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

10.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

11.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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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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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

18.

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

Saltus, Edgar

19.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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

Bertrand Russell

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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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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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.

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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

Anouilh, Jean

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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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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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David