Motivational Quotes

Love

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Love

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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

Hertl, Nick

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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

Chambless, David

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Irving, Washington

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

27.

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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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

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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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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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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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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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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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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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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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