Motivational Quotes

Love

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

12.

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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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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

William Shakespeare

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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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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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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

William Shakespeare

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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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

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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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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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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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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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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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

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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

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth