Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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

Peguy, Charles

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Bette Davis

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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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 something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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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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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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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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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean