Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Tomlin, Lily

Best Quotes about Love

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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

Plato

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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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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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Shakespeare, William

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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

Laing, R. D.

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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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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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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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

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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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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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell