Motivational Quotes

Love

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

- Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Best Quotes about Love

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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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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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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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 is the bridge between two hearts.

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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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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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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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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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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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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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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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love