Motivational Quotes

Love

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

- Teasdale, Sara

Best Quotes about Love

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

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

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

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

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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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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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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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

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

15.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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

William Shakespeare

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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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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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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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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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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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi