Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Pythagoras

Best Quotes about Love

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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

Pilgrim, Peace

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

William Penn

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

10.

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

Parker, Dorothy

11.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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

Delp, Alexis

15.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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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

18.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

19.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

21.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

22.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

27.

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

Meredith, George

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

35.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

41.

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

DiFranco, Ani

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Scott Westerfeld

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.