Motivational Quotes

Love

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Best Quotes about Love

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

10.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

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

12.

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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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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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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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

41.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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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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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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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

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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

Horton, Doug

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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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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.