Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Brown, David

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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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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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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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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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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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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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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