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

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

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.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Charles M. Schulz

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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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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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

Peguy, Charles

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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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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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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

Meredith, George

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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