Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is stronger than violence.

- Hesse, Hermann

Best Quotes about Love

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

Byron, Lord

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

10.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

11.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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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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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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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

18.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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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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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

21.

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

Sand, George

22.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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

Proverb

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

26.

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

Michael Patrick King

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

30.

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

Alan Watts

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

32.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

33.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

34.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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

William Shakespeare

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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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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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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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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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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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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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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

50.

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