Motivational Quotes

Love

'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

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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

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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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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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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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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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.

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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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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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

Shakespeare, William

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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

Traherne, Thomas