Motivational Quotes

Love

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Love

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Durrell, Lawrence

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

10.

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

11.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

14.

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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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

16.

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

Updike, John

17.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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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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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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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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

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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

27.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

28.

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

31.

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

Federman, Irwin

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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, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

36.

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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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

40.

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

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

42.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.