Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

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

Augustine, St.

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

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

DiFranco, Ani

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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

Allen, Woody

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Duffy, Maureen

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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

Proverb, Irish

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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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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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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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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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.