Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Love

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

12.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

13.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

15.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

19.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

20.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

21.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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

23.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Williams, William Carlos

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Anderson, Margaret

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

40.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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

Wilde, Kim

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel