Motivational Quotes

Love

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Best Quotes about Love

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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

Mansfield, Katherine

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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

David Viscott

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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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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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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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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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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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

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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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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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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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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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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 is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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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 is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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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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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.