Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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

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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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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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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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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Jean Anouilh

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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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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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George