Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

'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

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

10.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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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 way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

21.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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

William Shakespeare

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

National Lampoon

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

49.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare