Motivational Quotes

Love

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

- Lewis, Sinclair

Best Quotes about Love

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

11.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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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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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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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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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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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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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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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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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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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

34.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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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 and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

45.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.