Motivational Quotes

Love

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

- Gogh, Vincent Van

Best Quotes about Love

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

10.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

11.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

12.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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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

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

23.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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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

29.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

30.

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

Buddha

31.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

33.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

35.

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

Parker, Dorothy

36.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

38.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

39.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Carmichael, Amy

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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

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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