Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Love

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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

Proverb, Spanish

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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

Disney, Walt

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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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

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

18.

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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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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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

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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

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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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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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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

Voltaire

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

Hay, Louise L.

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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

Osgood, Samuel

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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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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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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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

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis