Motivational Quotes

Love

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

- Bertrand Russell

Best Quotes about Love

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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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

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

Anderson, Margaret

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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

Hay, Louise L.

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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

Nathan, George Jean

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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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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.

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert