Motivational Quotes

Love

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Behn, Aphra

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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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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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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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

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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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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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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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

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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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

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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

Jennifer Aniston

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

Williams, William Carlos

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts