Motivational Quotes

Love

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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.

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

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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

West, Mae

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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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

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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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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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William