Motivational Quotes

Love

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

- Smith, Sydney

Best Quotes about Love

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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

Jean Anouilh

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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

Mooneyham, Stan

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

Pascal, Blaise

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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

Paolo Giordano

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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

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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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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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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

Capote, Truman

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.