Motivational Quotes

Love

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

- Brookner, Anita

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

10.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

11.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Augustine, St.

14.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

21.

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Brown, Les

23.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

24.

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.

25.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

26.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

27.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

28.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

29.

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

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

31.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

34.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

36.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

40.

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

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

42.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

43.

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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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

45.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

46.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson