Motivational Quotes

Love

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

- Warhol, Andy

Best Quotes about Love

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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

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

Paolo Giordano

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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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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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

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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

36.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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

Hugo, Victor

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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

West, Mae

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.