Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Paolo Giordano

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

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

11.

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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

William Shakespeare

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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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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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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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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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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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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell