Motivational Quotes

Love

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Love

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

10.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

12.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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

Murdoch, Iris

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

William Shakespeare

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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

James, William

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward