Motivational Quotes

Love

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

- Jung, Carl

Best Quotes about Love

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

Sand, George

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

10.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

14.

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 all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

17.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

18.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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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

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

24.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

25.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

28.

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

Chanel, Coco

29.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

30.

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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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

35.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

36.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.