Motivational Quotes

Love

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Love

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Scherer, Paul

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

11.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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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.

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

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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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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

James, William

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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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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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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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

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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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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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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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

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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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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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite