Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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

Peguy, Charles

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Wilde, Kim

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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

Eucharista Ward

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel 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

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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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

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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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 often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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

William Shakespeare

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts