Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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

William Shakespeare

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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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 and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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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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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Leunig, Michael

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Calvino, Italo

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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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

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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

Carl Jung

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith