Motivational Quotes

Love

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Bible

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Saltus, Edgar

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

10.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

11.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

12.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

13.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

18.

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 the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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

Crawford, Joan

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Carroll, Pat

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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

26.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

27.

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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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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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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

Victor Hugo

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

47.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?