Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Rubinstein, Arthur

Best Quotes about Love

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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

William Shakespeare

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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

Anderson, Margaret

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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

Mcdonald, George

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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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.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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

William Shakespeare

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Delp, Alexis

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.