Motivational Quotes

Love

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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

Turner, Ted

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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

Buber, Martin

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

Barry, Lynda

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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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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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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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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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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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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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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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

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.