Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

Tomlin, Lily

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

10.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

11.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

12.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

13.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

14.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

15.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

17.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

18.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

19.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

22.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

25.

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

Du Coeur

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

35.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

William Shakespeare

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I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

40.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

41.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

43.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

44.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

45.

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?