Motivational Quotes

Love

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

- Reik, Theodor

Best Quotes about Love

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

10.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

11.

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

Randy K. Milholland

12.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

15.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

17.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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

20.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

21.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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

Peguy, Charles

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

28.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

29.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Confucius

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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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.

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

41.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

44.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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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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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa