Motivational Quotes

Love

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Love

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Jeanne Moreau

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

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

Mooneyham, Stan

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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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

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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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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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Burton, Robert

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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

Rowland, Helen

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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 never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Voltaire

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Jean Anouilh

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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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

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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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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

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar