Motivational Quotes

Love

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

- Southey, Robert

Best Quotes about Love

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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

Proust, Marcel

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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

Capote, Truman

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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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.

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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Eucharista Ward

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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

Van Gogh, Vincent