Motivational Quotes

Love

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

- Anderson, Margaret

Best Quotes about Love

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

William Shakespeare

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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

William Shakespeare

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

Julie Morgenstern

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

Proverb, Japanese

10.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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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

12.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

22.

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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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

24.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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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

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

28.

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

Hoffman, Lisa

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

36.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

40.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

42.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

43.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Bible

45.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

49.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William