Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Martineau, Harriet

Best Quotes about Love

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

11.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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

Seneca

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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 is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare