Motivational Quotes

Love

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Love

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aristotle

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

10.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

11.

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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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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

William Shakespeare

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Levine, Stephen

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Fromm, Erich

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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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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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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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

35.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Voltaire

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel