Motivational Quotes

Love

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

- Anderson, Margaret

Best Quotes about Love

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Alan Watts

11.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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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

13.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

14.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

15.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

16.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

17.

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

Hugo, Victor

18.

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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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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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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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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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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

DiFranco, Ani

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

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

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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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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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

35.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

39.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

40.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

41.

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

Osgood, Samuel

42.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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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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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.