Motivational Quotes

Love

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

- Southey, Robert

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Barry, Lynda

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

10.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

12.

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

13.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

15.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

16.

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

Hugo, Victor

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

18.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

19.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

21.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

22.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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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

25.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

26.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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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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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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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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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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

Dane, Frank

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce