Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

- Fromm, Erich

Best Quotes about Love

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

William Shakespeare

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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

11.

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

Wilkerson, David

12.

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

Brookner, Anita

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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

14.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

17.

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

Bible

18.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

19.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

20.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

21.

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

Davis, Bette

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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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

24.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

25.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

28.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Pythagoras

30.

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

Shakespeare, William

31.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

32.

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

33.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

34.

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

Proverb, Japanese

35.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

36.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

39.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

40.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

41.

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

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

Carmichael, Amy

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

45.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

47.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.