Motivational Quotes

Love

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Love

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

Jeph Jacques

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

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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

Erica Jong

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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

Brown, Les

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Confucius

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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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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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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 the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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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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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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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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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

32.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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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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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 may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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