Motivational Quotes

Love

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

- Mitchell, John N.

Best Quotes about Love

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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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

11.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

17.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

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

19.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

20.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

21.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

William Penn

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

24.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

27.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

29.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

31.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

32.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

33.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

34.

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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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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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

38.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

40.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

41.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

42.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

43.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

44.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Lawrence, D. H.

46.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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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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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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