Motivational Quotes

Love

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

- Burton, Robert

Best Quotes about Love

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Rossetti, Christina

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

10.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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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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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 much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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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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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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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

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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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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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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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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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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

William Penn

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

40.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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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

43.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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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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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Petrarch, Francesco