Motivational Quotes

Love

We love because it's the only true adventure.

- Giovanni, Nikki

Best Quotes about Love

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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

Shakespeare, William

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Proverb, Japanese

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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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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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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

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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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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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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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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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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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.

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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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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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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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, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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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 and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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.

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin