Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Best Quotes about Love

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Duras, Marguerite

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

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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

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Charles M. Schulz

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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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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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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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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

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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

Proverb, Irish

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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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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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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

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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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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

Voltaire

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates