Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

- Gordon, Rabbi J.

Best Quotes about Love

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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

Pavese, Cesare

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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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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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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

William Shakespeare

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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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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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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.

Davis, Bette

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

Clark, Melanie

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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'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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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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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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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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