Motivational Quotes

Love

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

- Stravinsky, Igor

Best Quotes about Love

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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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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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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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

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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

William Penn

28.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

33.

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

William Shakespeare

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

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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 a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

42.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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

Seneca

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

49.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth