Motivational Quotes

Love

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Wilkerson, David

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

10.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

11.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

12.

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

Irving, Washington

13.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

16.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

17.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

18.

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

19.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

21.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

22.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

25.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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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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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

30.

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

31.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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

Stravinsky, Igor

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.