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 without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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

DiFranco, Ani

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

11.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Toni Morrison

17.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

18.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

19.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

20.

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

Brooke, Rupert

21.

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

22.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

23.

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

24.

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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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

26.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

30.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

31.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

34.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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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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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

37.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

38.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

39.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

40.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

43.

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

Diane Ackerman

44.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

45.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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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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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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If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.