Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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

William Shakespeare

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

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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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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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

Saltus, Edgar

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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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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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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 few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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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