Motivational Quotes

Love

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

11.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

12.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

13.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

14.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

15.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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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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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

18.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

20.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

24.

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

25.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

27.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

30.

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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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

33.

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

Sand, George

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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

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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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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

44.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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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