Motivational Quotes

Love

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

- Catullus

Best Quotes about Love

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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

Anderson, Margaret

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

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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

William Shakespeare

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

10.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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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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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Tomlin, Lily

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

40.

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

Tracy, Brian

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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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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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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

Wilde, Kim

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen