Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Margaret Cho

Best Quotes about Love

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

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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

Youngman, Henny

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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

Brown, Les

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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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 means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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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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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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

William Shakespeare

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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

Rowland, Helen

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar