Motivational Quotes

Love

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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.

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

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

Davis, Bette

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

12.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

17.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

18.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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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

24.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

25.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

28.

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

Mooneyham, Stan

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

31.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

32.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

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

Wilde, Kim

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

Euripides

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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

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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

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

40.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

45.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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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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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.