Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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

Carl Jung

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Ice T

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

William Shakespeare

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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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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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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

Hugo, Victor

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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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

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I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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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

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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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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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest