Motivational Quotes

Love

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Alan Watts

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

William Penn

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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

10.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

11.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

12.

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

Capote, Truman

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

15.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

19.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

21.

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

Richardson, Nick

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

25.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

26.

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

Mcdonald, George

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

28.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

29.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

32.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

33.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

34.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

39.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

42.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lao-Tzu

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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