Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

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

Saltus, Edgar

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

William Shakespeare

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Buber, Martin

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

13.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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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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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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

William Penn

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

Barry, Lynda

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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

Strindberg, J. August

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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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

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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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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

40.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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