Motivational Quotes

Love

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

- Alan Watts

Best Quotes about Love

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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

Laing, R. D.

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

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

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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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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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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

Proverb, French

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Traherne, Thomas

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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

William Shakespeare

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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

Calvino, Italo

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

Ice T

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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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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair