Motivational Quotes

Love

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Love

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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

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

West, Mae

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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

Capote, Truman

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

12.

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

Plato

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

16.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

17.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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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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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

24.

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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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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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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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

28.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

31.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

33.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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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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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

38.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

39.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

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

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

43.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.