Motivational Quotes

Love

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

- Brookner, Anita

Best Quotes about Love

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

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Proverb, Japanese

10.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

11.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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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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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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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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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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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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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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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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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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

Jane Austen

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

William Shakespeare

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

43.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Ovid

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

49.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt