Motivational Quotes

Love

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

- Levine, Stephen

Best Quotes about Love

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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

Turner, Ted

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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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 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

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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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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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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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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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

31.

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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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

48.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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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