Motivational Quotes

Love

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

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

Mcdonald, George

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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

Buddha

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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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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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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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

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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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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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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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

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.