Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

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 not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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

Euripides

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Seneca

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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'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

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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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

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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, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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

Shakespeare, William

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

23.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

25.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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

Ovid

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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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

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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

Thurber, James

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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 bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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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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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.