Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

11.

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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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

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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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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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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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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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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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles