Motivational Quotes

Love

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

- Powell, Anthony

Best Quotes about Love

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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

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

10.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Brookner, Anita

12.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

13.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

15.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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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.

17.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

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

Eucharista Ward

19.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

20.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

23.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

24.

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

Michael Patrick King

25.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

26.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

28.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

29.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

33.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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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

35.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

40.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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

Wilde, Kim

44.

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.

45.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Parker, Dorothy

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas