Motivational Quotes

Love

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

- Mitchell, John N.

Best Quotes about Love

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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

Brooke, Rupert

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Durrell, Lawrence

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

10.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

11.

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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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

19.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

20.

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

William Penn

21.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

23.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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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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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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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

33.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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

Capote, Truman

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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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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

48.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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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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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath