Motivational Quotes

Love

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

- Auerbach, Red

Best Quotes about Love

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

William Shakespeare

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

11.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

14.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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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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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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

18.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

20.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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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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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

25.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

26.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

30.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

31.

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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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

33.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

34.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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

Carl Jung

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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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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

41.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

42.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

43.

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

46.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.