Motivational Quotes

Love

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

- Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

12.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

46.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Buddha

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.