Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Scherer, Paul

Best Quotes about Love

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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

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

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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.

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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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 bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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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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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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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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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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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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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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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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

Aristotle

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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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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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.