Motivational Quotes

Love

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Steinfeld, Jake

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

10.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

12.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

19.

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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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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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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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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

Augustine, St.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

28.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

34.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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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

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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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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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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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

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We can only learn to love by loving.