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

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

Mcdonald, George

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

Eucharista Ward

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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

Auerbach, Red

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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 and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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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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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Ovid

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, 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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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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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

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.