Motivational Quotes

Love

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

10.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

11.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

12.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

13.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

14.

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

15.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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

18.

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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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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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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

Federman, Irwin

25.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

33.

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

Eucharista Ward

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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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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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

40.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

41.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

42.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Hertl, Nick

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

46.

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

47.

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

Bible

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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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