Motivational Quotes

Love

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

- Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

Best Quotes about Love

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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

Martineau, Harriet

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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

Seneca

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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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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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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

Proverb

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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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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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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

William Shakespeare

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Rossetti, Christina

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine