Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

17.

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

Charles M. Schulz

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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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

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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.

25.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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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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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

35.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

37.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

38.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato