Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Rubinstein, Arthur

Best Quotes about Love

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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

Bacon, Francis

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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

Real Live Preacher

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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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.

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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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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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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

Byron, Lord

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

25.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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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 not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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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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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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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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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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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

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George