Motivational Quotes

Love

True love is the parent of humility.

- Channing, William Ellery

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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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

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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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

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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

Julie Morgenstern

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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

West, Mae

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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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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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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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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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

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

45.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John