Motivational Quotes

Love

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Vicious, Sid

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

10.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

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

Buber, Martin

12.

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

Hazlitt, William

13.

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

Pascal, Blaise

14.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

15.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

16.

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

17.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

18.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

19.

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

Carl Jung

20.

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

21.

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

West, Mae

22.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

23.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

25.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

27.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

28.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

29.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

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

Williams, William Carlos

33.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

34.

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

35.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

36.

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

Bailey, Pearl

37.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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

40.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

41.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

42.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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

44.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

45.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

46.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

48.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.