Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

11.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

12.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

16.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

20.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

21.

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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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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

John of the Cross, St.

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There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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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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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

36.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

37.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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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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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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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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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges