Motivational Quotes

Love

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Love

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

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

Euripides

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

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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

Stravinsky, Igor

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

34.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

40.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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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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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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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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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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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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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare