Motivational Quotes

Love

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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

Reagan, Ronald

10.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

11.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

12.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

14.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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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

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

20.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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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

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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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 only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

William Shakespeare

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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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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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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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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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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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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

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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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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.