Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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

Wilkerson, David

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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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

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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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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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

22.

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

Michael Patrick King

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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

Hay, Louise L.

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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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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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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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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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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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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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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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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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