Motivational Quotes

Love

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

- Calvino, Italo

Best Quotes about Love

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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

Harrigan, John

11.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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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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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

40.

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Jeph Jacques

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.