Motivational Quotes

Love

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Love

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

Reagan, Ronald

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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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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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

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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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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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Scott Westerfeld

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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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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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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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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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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

Heinlein, Robert