Motivational Quotes

Love

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

- Kathryn L. Nelson

Best Quotes about Love

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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

Wilkerson, David

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

Aragon, Louis

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.

10.

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

11.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

12.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

13.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

14.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

17.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

18.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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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.

25.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

28.

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

29.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

30.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

37.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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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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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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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

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Sarton, May