Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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

Layton, Irving

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

10.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

11.

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

12.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

16.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

17.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

18.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

20.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

23.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

24.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

25.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

30.

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

Dickinson, Emily

31.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

32.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

38.

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

Chambless, David

39.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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

John Sheffield

43.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

45.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

46.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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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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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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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

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William