Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Love

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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

Confucius

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

William Shakespeare

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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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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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

William Shakespeare

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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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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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Smith, Sydney

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.