Motivational Quotes

Love

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

10.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

11.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

William Shakespeare

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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

Mooneyham, Stan

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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

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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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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.

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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

Steinfeld, Jake

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

West, Mae

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

42.

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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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

William Shakespeare

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna