Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

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

Toni Morrison

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

10.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

11.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

18.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

23.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

27.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

30.

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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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

33.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

34.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

35.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

36.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

41.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

43.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

44.

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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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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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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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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

William Shakespeare

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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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