Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

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

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Allen, Woody

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

10.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

11.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

12.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

13.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

15.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Dickinson, Emily

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

21.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Sand, George

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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

Rossetti, Christina

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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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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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

Harrigan, John

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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

39.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

40.

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

Williams, William Carlos

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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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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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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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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.