Motivational Quotes

Love

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Anouilh, Jean

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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

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

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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

Chanel, Coco

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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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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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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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 is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas 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.

Davis, Bette

28.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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

30.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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

Thurber, James

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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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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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

Peguy, Charles

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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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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.