Motivational Quotes

Love

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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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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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Rowland, Helen

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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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

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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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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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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

Laing, R. D.

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Love is the cheapest of religions.