Motivational Quotes

Love

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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

Burton, Robert

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Charles M. Schulz

10.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

11.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Hugo, Victor

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

32.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

33.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

34.

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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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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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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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Michael Patrick King

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare