Motivational Quotes

Love

The only victory over love is flight.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Love

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

William Shakespeare

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

David Viscott

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

Lewis, Sinclair

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

10.

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

Peguy, Charles

11.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

12.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

13.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

14.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

15.

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

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

17.

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

18.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

19.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

23.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

24.

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

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

27.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

28.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

31.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

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

35.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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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

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Wieder, Marcia

44.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

46.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

49.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

50.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William