Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Chazal, Malcolm De

Best Quotes about Love

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

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

11.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

12.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

13.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

14.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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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

16.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

18.

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

19.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

23.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

25.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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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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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Calvino, Italo

33.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

34.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

35.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

36.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

40.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

41.

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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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

43.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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

47.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.