Motivational Quotes

Love

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

- Upanishads, Veda

Best Quotes about Love

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

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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

Jennifer Aniston

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

10.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

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

Murdoch, Iris

12.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

13.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

14.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

15.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

17.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

18.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

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

20.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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

Swift, Jonathan

25.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

26.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

27.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

30.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

31.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

32.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

33.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

34.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

35.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

37.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

38.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

40.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

42.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

43.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

44.

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 comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil