Motivational Quotes

Love

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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

Eucharista Ward

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

Bible

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

10.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

11.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

12.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

13.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

18.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

19.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

20.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

21.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Carl Jung

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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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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

25.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

26.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

27.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

28.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

31.

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

Meredith, George

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

Toni Morrison

33.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

William Shakespeare

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

41.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Hoffman, Lisa

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

William Shakespeare

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

Harrigan, John

49.

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

National Lampoon

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