Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

- Lynda Barry

Best Quotes about Love

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Dryden, John

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

Dickinson, Emily

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

11.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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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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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

18.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

20.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

26.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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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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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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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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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

39.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

40.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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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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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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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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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin