Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

10.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

11.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

12.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

13.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

16.

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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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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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

20.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

21.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

22.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

25.

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

26.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

27.

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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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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

Proverb, Japanese

30.

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.

31.

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

Levine, Stephen

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

33.

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

Richardson, Nick

34.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

35.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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.

38.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

39.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

40.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

41.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

42.

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

43.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

44.

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

Wilde, Kim

45.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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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

49.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.