Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Love

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

10.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

11.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Disney, Walt

13.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Voltaire

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

21.

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

William Shakespeare

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Laing, R. D.

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

38.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.