Motivational Quotes

Love

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

- Kent, Sister Corita

Best Quotes about Love

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Groening, Matt

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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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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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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

Seneca

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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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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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

William Shakespeare

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Confucius

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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

Law, William

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle