Motivational Quotes

Love

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Alan Watts

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

West, Mae

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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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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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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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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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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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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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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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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 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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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Paolo Giordano

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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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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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

Murdoch, Iris

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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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

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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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

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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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

Borges, Jorge Luis