Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Love

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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

National Lampoon

10.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

11.

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

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I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

13.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

15.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

18.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

19.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

24.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

25.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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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

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

28.

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

Laing, R. D.

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

30.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

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

Julie Morgenstern

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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.

33.

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

34.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

40.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

42.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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

47.

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

48.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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