Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

- Irving, Washington

Best Quotes about Love

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

11.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

17.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

19.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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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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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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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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You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.