Motivational Quotes

Love

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

- Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Jennifer Aniston

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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 a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Harrigan, John

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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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

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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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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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu