Motivational Quotes

Love

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

- Sergeevich, Ivan

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Federman, Irwin

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Laing, R. D.

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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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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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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

Jeph Jacques

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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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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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche