Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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

Brown, David

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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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

11.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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

Harrigan, John

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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

Mcdonald, George

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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

Anouilh, Jean

24.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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

Stravinsky, Igor

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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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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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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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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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

40.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

41.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Allen, Woody

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Hugo, Victor