Motivational Quotes

Love

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

- Menninger, Karl A.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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

Carroll, Pat

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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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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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

Delp, Alexis

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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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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

John Sheffield

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt