Motivational Quotes

Love

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

- Stael, Germaine De

Best Quotes about Love

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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

William Shakespeare

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

10.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

11.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

12.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

13.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Croft, Roy

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

William Shakespeare

16.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

17.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

18.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

20.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

22.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

23.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

24.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

28.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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.

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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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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

32.

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

Eucharista Ward

33.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

35.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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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 an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

40.

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

41.

'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

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

43.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

44.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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My love admits no qualifying dross.