Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Southey, Robert

Best Quotes about Love

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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

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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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Parker, Dorothy

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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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 can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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

William Penn

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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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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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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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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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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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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.