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

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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

Brookner, Anita

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

10.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

12.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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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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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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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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

Pythagoras

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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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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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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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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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

Levine, Stephen

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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

Elizabeth Aston

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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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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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'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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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William