Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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

Sand, George

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

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

Bible

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

13.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

14.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

15.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

17.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

18.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

19.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

21.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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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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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

32.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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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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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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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

40.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

41.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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

Steinfeld, Jake

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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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's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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

Rossetti, Christina