Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Proverb, Japanese

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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

William Shakespeare

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

17.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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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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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

33.

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

William Shakespeare

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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

Byron, Lord

36.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara 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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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

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

40.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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

Charles M. Schulz

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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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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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor