Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Borges, Jorge Luis

Best Quotes about Love

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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

Auvil, Myrtle

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

10.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

11.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

12.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

13.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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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

18.

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

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

27.

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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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

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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

Anderson, Margaret

32.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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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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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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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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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert