Motivational Quotes

Love

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Love

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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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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 and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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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

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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

William Shakespeare

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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

Rossetti, Christina

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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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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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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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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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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

Hugo, Victor

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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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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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

44.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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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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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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

Seneca

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare