Motivational Quotes

Love

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

10.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

11.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

14.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

15.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

16.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

18.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

21.

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

22.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

24.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

26.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

27.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

28.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

30.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

34.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

43.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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

Proverb, Japanese

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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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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

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

Aristotle

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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