Motivational Quotes

Love

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

- Anderson, Margaret

Best Quotes about Love

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

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 touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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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

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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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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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

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

Proverb, Japanese

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

24.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

27.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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

Vicious, Sid

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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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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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

34.

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

Proverb, Jewish

35.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Jerome, St.

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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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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Thurber, James

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre