Motivational Quotes

Love

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

- Mansfield, Katherine

Best Quotes about Love

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Japanese

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

10.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

11.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

12.

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 comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

18.

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

Chambless, David

19.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

20.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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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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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

25.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

28.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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

Harrigan, John

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

32.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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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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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

39.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

40.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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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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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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

Scott Westerfeld

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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

Orwell, George

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu