Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

10.

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

Carl Jung

11.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

12.

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

13.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

15.

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

Dane, Frank

16.

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

18.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

19.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

20.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

21.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

22.

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

23.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

24.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

28.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

29.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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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

31.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

32.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

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

Alan Watts

34.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

35.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

37.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

41.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

42.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Behn, Aphra

44.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

46.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

47.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

48.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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