Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Gogh, Vincent Van

Best Quotes about Love

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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

Pythagoras

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

10.

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

11.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

12.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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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

15.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

16.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

17.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

18.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

19.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Calvino, Italo

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Verse, A Haiku

25.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

26.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

27.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

28.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

29.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

30.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

31.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

32.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

33.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

37.

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

38.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

41.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

42.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

44.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

45.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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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