Motivational Quotes

Love

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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Best Quotes about Love

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

21.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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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

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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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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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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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

42.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

44.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Ice T

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John