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

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

12.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

13.

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

14.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

16.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

17.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

18.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

20.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

21.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

22.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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

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

Alan Watts

25.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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

Brown, David

28.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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

William Shakespeare

30.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

31.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

32.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

33.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

35.

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

Lennon, John

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

37.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

38.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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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.

Davis, Bette

40.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

44.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

45.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

46.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

47.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

48.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales