Motivational Quotes

Love

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Mooneyham, Stan

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

10.

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

Federman, Irwin

11.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

William Shakespeare

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

25.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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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

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

28.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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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

30.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

31.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

32.

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

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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

Strindberg, J. August

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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

Elizabeth Aston

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

41.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Clark, Melanie

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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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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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

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord