Motivational Quotes

Love

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

- Bridges, Robert

Best Quotes about Love

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

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

Buscaglia, Leo

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

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

Paolo Giordano

10.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

11.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

13.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

14.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

15.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

18.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

19.

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

20.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

21.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

22.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

23.

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

24.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

25.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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

Shakespeare, William

27.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

28.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

29.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

30.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

33.

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

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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

Hay, Louise L.

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

37.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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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

39.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

40.

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

Ovid

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

45.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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

Eliot, T. S.

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Charles M. Schulz

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.