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

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Calvino, Italo

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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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.

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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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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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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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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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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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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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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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

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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

Wilkerson, David

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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

Jean Anouilh

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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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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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?