Motivational Quotes

Love

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

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

Hugo, Victor

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Smith, Sydney

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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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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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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

Peter Ustinov

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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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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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 the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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

Mooneyham, Stan

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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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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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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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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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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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

Real Live Preacher

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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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

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

Brown, Les

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle