Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a friendship set to music.

- Cossman, E. Joseph

Best Quotes about Love

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

11.

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

Diane Ackerman

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

19.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

20.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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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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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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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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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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

Proverb, Japanese

35.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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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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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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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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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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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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

46.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.