Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Petrarch, Francesco

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

10.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

11.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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

William Shakespeare

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Michael Patrick King

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

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