Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Chambless, David

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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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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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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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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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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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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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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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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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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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

27.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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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 like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

38.

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

Reik, Theodor

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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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 is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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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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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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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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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.