Motivational Quotes

Love

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Love

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Mcdonald, George

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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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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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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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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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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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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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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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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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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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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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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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 made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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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

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

Hugo, Victor

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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.