Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Strindberg, J. August

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

Delp, Alexis

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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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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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

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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

Sand, George

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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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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

24.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

34.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hay, Louise L.

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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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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.