Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Love

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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

Anderson, Margaret

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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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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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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

Anouilh, Jean

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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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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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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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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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

37.

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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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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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 means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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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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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo