Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

12.

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

Eucharista Ward

13.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

19.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

20.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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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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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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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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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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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

37.

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

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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

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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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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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas