Motivational Quotes

Love

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

- Bruyere, Jean De La

Best Quotes about Love

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Pythagoras

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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

William Shakespeare

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

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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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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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

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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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

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Eliot, T. S.

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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

37.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Byron, Lord

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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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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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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

Gogh, Vincent Van