Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

- Gogh, Vincent Van

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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

Pythagoras

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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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

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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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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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Hoffman, Lisa

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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

Carmichael, Amy

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.