Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Gibran, Kahlil

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Thurber, James

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Japanese

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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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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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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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