Motivational Quotes

Love

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

- Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

Best Quotes about Love

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Elizabeth Aston

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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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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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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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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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 isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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

Hay, Louise L.

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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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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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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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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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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

Buddha

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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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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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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.

Bette Davis

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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

Strindberg, J. August

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George