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

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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

Burton, Robert

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

Donne, John

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

10.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

11.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

12.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

13.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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

15.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

16.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Euripides

18.

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

Nathan, George Jean

19.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

21.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Sand, George

24.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

25.

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

West, Mae

26.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

27.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

28.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

29.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

30.

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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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

33.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

37.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Proverb, Japanese

40.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

41.

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

Youngman, Henny

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

44.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

45.

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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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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

Wilkerson, David