Motivational Quotes

Love

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

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Best Quotes about Love

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

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ferry, Brian

10.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

11.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Hugo, Victor

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

17.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

18.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

19.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

20.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

21.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

22.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

23.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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

James, William

25.

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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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

27.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

28.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

29.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Byron, Lord

31.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

32.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

33.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

34.

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

Bible

35.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

37.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

38.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

42.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

44.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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

47.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae