Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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

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

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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

Harrigan, John

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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

Eucharista Ward

18.

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

Proverb, French

19.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

20.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

21.

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

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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

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

Horton, Doug

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

25.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

27.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

28.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

29.

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

DiFranco, Ani

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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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 adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

40.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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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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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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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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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield