Motivational Quotes

Love

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Love

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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

Sarton, May

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Charles M. Schulz

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

11.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

12.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

17.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

18.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

19.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

25.

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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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

29.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

38.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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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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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 touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

49.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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.