Motivational Quotes

Love

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

- Becker, Ernest

Best Quotes about Love

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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

William Shakespeare

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

10.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

11.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

12.

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

13.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

15.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

17.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

18.

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

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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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

24.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

25.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

27.

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

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

30.

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

31.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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'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

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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

35.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

36.

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

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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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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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

46.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.