Motivational Quotes

Love

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

- Tauler, Johannes

Best Quotes about Love

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

Southey, Robert

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

11.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

12.

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 is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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

Dane, Frank

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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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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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

31.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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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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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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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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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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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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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.