Motivational Quotes

Love

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

- Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

Best Quotes about Love

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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

Rita Rudner

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

10.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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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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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

29.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

30.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

31.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Julie Morgenstern

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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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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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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

Byron, Lord

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Levine, Stephen

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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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