Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Thurber, James

Best Quotes about Love

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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

Bailey, Pearl

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

10.

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

Smith, Sydney

11.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

12.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

15.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Ice T

17.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

20.

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

Proverb

21.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

22.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

25.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

26.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

27.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

28.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

30.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

32.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

33.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

34.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

38.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

40.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

44.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

45.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

46.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

49.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor