Motivational Quotes

Love

Learn what you are and be such.

- Pindar

Best Quotes about Love

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

Osgood, Samuel

'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

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Duras, Marguerite

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

Traherne, Thomas

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

11.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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 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

14.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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

Confucius

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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

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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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

22.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Brown, David

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

25.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

28.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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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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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

33.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Southey, Robert

36.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

40.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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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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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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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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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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