Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

10.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

11.

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

12.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

14.

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

Lao-Tzu

15.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

16.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

17.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

18.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

21.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

22.

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

23.

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

Ackerman, Diane

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

25.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

26.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

29.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

32.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

33.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

35.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

37.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

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

Plato

40.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

41.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

42.

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

43.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

44.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

45.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

46.

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

Bible

47.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

48.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

49.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

50.

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

William Shakespeare