Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Smith, Sydney

Best Quotes about Love

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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

10.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

11.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

12.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

17.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

18.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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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, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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

27.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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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 and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

36.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

40.

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

Mother Teresa

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.