Motivational Quotes

Love

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

- Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

Best Quotes about 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

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Duras, Marguerite

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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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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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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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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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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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

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Rowland, Helen

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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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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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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

James, William

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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