Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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

William Shakespeare

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Pythagoras

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

10.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

12.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

14.

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

Proverb, French

15.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

16.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

17.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

18.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

20.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

22.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

24.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

25.

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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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

28.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

29.

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

30.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

31.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

32.

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

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

34.

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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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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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

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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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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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

42.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

43.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

44.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

45.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

46.

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

Michael Patrick King

47.

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

Lennon, John

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.