Motivational Quotes

Love

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

- Chambless, David

Best Quotes about Love

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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

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

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

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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

Laing, R. D.

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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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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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Levine, Stephen

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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

Victor Hugo

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Duffy, Maureen

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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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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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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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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

Wilde, Kim

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

44.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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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 must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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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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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare