Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Thurber, James

Best Quotes about Love

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Franklin, Benjamin

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

10.

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

Southey, Robert

11.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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

William Shakespeare

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Scherer, Paul

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

19.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

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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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

24.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

25.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

26.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

33.

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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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

36.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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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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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

42.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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.

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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

45.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

46.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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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