Motivational Quotes

Love

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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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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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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

Shakespeare, William

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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

William Shakespeare

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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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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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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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

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

William Shakespeare

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George