Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Love

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Aristotle

10.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

11.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

12.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

15.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

16.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

17.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

18.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

19.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

20.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

21.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

23.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

24.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

25.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

26.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

27.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

28.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

29.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

30.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

31.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

33.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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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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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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

39.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

40.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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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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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

43.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

45.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug