Motivational Quotes

Love

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

- Mitchell, John N.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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 and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

10.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

11.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

12.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

13.

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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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

15.

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

Bridges, Robert

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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

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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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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

Levine, Stephen

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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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

24.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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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 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 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.

28.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

31.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

33.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

34.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

35.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Wilde, Kim

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.