Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Best Quotes about Love

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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

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

Margaret Cho

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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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

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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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

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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

Orwell, George

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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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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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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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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!