Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a serious mental disease.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Love

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

10.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

11.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

14.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

19.

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

William Shakespeare

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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 built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

23.

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

Tomlin, Lily

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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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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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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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

32.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

34.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

35.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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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

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.