Motivational Quotes

Love

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

- Williams, Tennessee

Best Quotes about Love

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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

Harrigan, John

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

10.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

11.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

12.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

13.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

14.

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

Nathan, George Jean

15.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

16.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

17.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

19.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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

Proverb, French

23.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

24.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

25.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

28.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

29.

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

30.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

31.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

34.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

35.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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

William Penn

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

38.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

39.

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

DiFranco, Ani

40.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

41.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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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