Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

11.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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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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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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

Barry, Lynda

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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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

24.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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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 sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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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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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

39.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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

John of the Cross, St.

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

45.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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

Thurber, James

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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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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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.