Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Love

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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 smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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

Menninger, Karl A.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

10.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

11.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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

13.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

14.

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

15.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

16.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

17.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

18.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

19.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

20.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

21.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

22.

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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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

24.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

25.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

26.

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

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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

28.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

29.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

30.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

31.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

32.

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

Donne, John

34.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

35.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

36.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

37.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

39.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

40.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

41.

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

42.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

43.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

44.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

45.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

46.

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

William Shakespeare

47.

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

William Shakespeare

48.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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

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