Motivational Quotes

Love

The hottest love has the coldest end.

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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

Steindl-Rast, David

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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

James, William

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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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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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.