Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

- Nathan, George Jean

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

William Shakespeare

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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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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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

William Shakespeare

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

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Bailey, Pearl

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.