Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

- Parker, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Love

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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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.

Davis, Bette

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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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

16.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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

Scherer, Paul

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

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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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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

Wilde, Kim

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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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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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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

37.

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

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

39.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Thurber, James

43.

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

44.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.