Motivational Quotes

Love

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

- Proverb, Irish

Best Quotes about Love

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

10.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

11.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

13.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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

Wilde, Kim

16.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

17.

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

Wieder, Marcia

18.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

19.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

22.

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

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

24.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

29.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

31.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

32.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

33.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

41.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

45.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

46.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

48.

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

49.

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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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