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

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

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

William Shakespeare

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

10.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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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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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

15.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

18.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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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

20.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

22.

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

William Shakespeare

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

25.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

30.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

31.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

32.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

33.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

34.

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

James, William

35.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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

William Shakespeare

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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora